Antares, also called Alpha Scorpii, red, semiregular variable star, with apparent visual magnitude about 1.1, the brightest star in the zodiacal constellation Scorpius and one of the largest known stars, having several hundred times the diameter of the Sun and 10,000 times the Sun's luminosity.

Photo was taken with a Meade DSI IIIc using a Levenhuk 10" Newtonian Telescope.