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Its story

69 Ceti is a red M-type giant cast more than a thousand light-years away, set within the vast figure of the Sea Monster. Its light —cool and deeply orange through binoculars— left the star around the tenth century, long before the first modern ocean voyages. Cetus is a wide, dim constellation, and tracking this giant takes patience, far from any famous asterism, in a transitional patch of the autumn sky.