hip-101260

Variable star

Its story

73 Draconis is a peculiar variable of the Alpha² Canum Venaticorum type: its brightness and spectrum fluctuate with a period of about twenty days, ruled by an intense, tilted magnetic field that drags rare metals like europium across its surface. It is a white star, chemically and magnetically strange, set in the head of the Dragon. Its light takes nearly four centuries to reach us.

Constellation: Draco
Apparent magnitude: 5.18
Distance: 395.9 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 307.877° · Dec 74.955°
Catalogue: HIP 101260 · HD 196502

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