--- name: RY Sgr constellation: Sgr created_by: editor.cs created_date: 2023-11-05 17:13:29.496865 updated_by: editor.cs updated_date: 2023-11-05 17:13:29.496868 --- The equivalent of R Coronae Borealis, because it suddenly and unexpectedly changes its brightness from the eighth to the fourteenth magnitude. It does not have any precise period, and after R Coronae Borealis itself, it is the brightest star of this type. Its brightness unexpectedly decreases when carbon soot accumulates in the atmosphere.