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Pi
Its story
Pi Cephei is a yellow triple system: an inner pair completing its dance every year and a half, while a more distant third star takes about 160 years to round its course. The combined light reaches the eye as a single point, but hides a piece of celestial clockwork 247 light-years away, in the northern reach where myth placed the king of Ethiopia.
- Constellation
- Cepheus
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.41
- Distance
- 246.7 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 346.974° · Dec 75.387°
- Catalogue
- HIP 114222 · HD 218658
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