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Alshat
Nu
Hot blue starIts story
Alshat is a hot blue B-class star 253 light years away, set within the goat-fish of Capricornus. Its Arabic name «al-shāt» means «the sheep», recalling a now nearly forgotten asterism in which the star appeared as a sacrificial animal beside the neighbouring zodiacal figures. Its light departed around 1770, in the midst of the European Enlightenment.
- Constellation
- Capricornus
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.77
- Distance
- 253.3 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 305.166° · Dec -12.759°
- Catalogue
- HIP 100310 · HD 193432
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