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hip-104752
Its story
In the southern Microscope —one of the scientific constellations traced by Lacaille in 1751— burns an orange giant 366 light-years away. Its light set out around 1660, the year the Royal Society was founded in London, the first modern forum of organised science. Old K-types are great mild bonfires: they burn helium at their heart and triple the Sun's girth.
- Constellation
- Microscopium
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.97
- Distance
- 365.7 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 318.329° · Dec -36.424°
- Catalogue
- HIP 104752 · HD 201852
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