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Its story

2 Piscium is a K-type orange star at the western end of Pisces, where the Fishes approach Aquarius along the zodiac. At around 299 light-years, its light has been on its way since the late Enlightenment, when knowledge of the sky was first being systematised in great European catalogues. A discreet star, hovering near the limit of what an unaided eye can perceive from a truly dark sky.