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kleinbl00 · 3382 days ago · link · · parent · post: An alien star passed through our Solar System just 70,000 years ago, astronomers have announced.
Problem being red dwarfs aren't particularly bright. Proxima Centauri is a couple points brighter than Pluto and a couple points dimmer than Neptune. Having tried to hunt both of those with a 10" Dobsonian in the high desert under ideal conditions and meeting with failure, I can tell you that things with a magnitude in the positive double digits are... underwhelming for observation by non-astronomers.