hip-111809

Variable star

Its story

In the modest Piscis Austrinus flickers this white A-type variable, some four hundred and twenty-three light years out. Its light departed when the Netherlands lived its Golden Age, at the height of Vermeer and Rembrandt. The slow pulsation now being detected is the physical trace of a time when painting still explained the world better than any equation.

Constellation: Piscis Austrinus
Apparent magnitude: 5.66
Distance: 423.6 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 339.714° · Dec -33.081°
Catalogue: HIP 111809 · HD 214484

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