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Its story

1 Lacertae opens the Flamsteed catalogue for a late, quiet constellation —drawn by Hevelius in the 17th century between Cygnus and Andromeda. It is an orange K-type giant whose light, born more than six centuries ago, was already travelling when Europe was redrawing its star charts. At magnitude 4.1 it is barely a whisper to the naked eye, yet it presides over its corner of the autumn sky with an ancient, amber calm.