I found Rigel!
I obtained this image of the star Rigel earlier this year while in the process of aligning the secondary mirror of my telescope.
Look closely.....See it's tiny "companion star" at the upper right of Rigel.
Shot with a Canon 40D, raw, 25 x 15 second images, ISO-800 Astronomik filter, 6.3FR. combined, aligned and stacked in DSS.
Rigel is a Class B supergiant, though a contrasting blue. Rigel ranks 7th in visual brightness. At a distance of 860 light years it shines with the light of 85,000 Suns
Only about 10 million years old, Rigel should eventually expand to become a red supergiant and likely supernova.
Rigel is accompanied by a seventh magnitude companion nine seconds of arc away. The companion, at a distance of at least 2500 AU (60 times farther from Rigel than Pluto is from the Sun), must take at least 25,000 years to make an orbit.
I pretty much had the focus dead on and was quite pleased with the alignment of the instrument.