Fourteen stars you have walked under without seeing

Fourteen nights. One overlooked star each. None of them is visible from a lit street.

1. Fomalhaut the loneliest bright star, wearing a ring of dust.
2. Mu Cephei big enough to swallow Jupiter's whole orbit.
3. 61 Cygni first star ever measured past the Sun, by a man nobody believed.
4. Mira "the Wonderful," inconstant enough to vanish for months.
5. Kapteyn's Star orbiting our galaxy backwards, likely debris from one we ate.
6. R Leporis reddest exactly when it's dimmest.
7. Delta Cephei a pulse steady enough to measure the universe with.
8. Teegarden's Star too dim for eyes, found in old asteroid photos.
9. Barnard's Star fastest in our sky, and still never seen.
10. Scholz's Star crossed our comet cloud 70,000 years ago and nobody looked up.
11. Alcor whose old name means "the forgotten one."
12. Van Maanen's Star a dead sun still showing the planets it ate.
13. HD 140283 briefly older than the universe, until we checked the number again.
14. Gliese 445 Voyager 1 is aimed at it. In 40,000 years it passes within 1.6 light-years, unseen.

I'm still pointing.