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Algedi
Alp-2
Its story
Algedi marks the head of Capricornus, the old zodiacal sign of the goat-fish. Its name comes from the Arabic «al-jady», «the goat», and it forms an optical pair — two stars that look like neighbours in the sky but in truth lie at vastly different distances. This one is a yellow G-class giant, sun-coloured but considerably larger, perched some 106 light-years from here.
- Constellation
- Capricornus
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.58
- Distance
- 105.8 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 304.514° · Dec -12.545°
- Catalogue
- HIP 100064 · HD 192947
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