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Its story

97 Aquarii is a double main-sequence system of type A3, perched directly on the ecliptic —the path the Sun appears to trace across the sky through the year—. Its two components, of magnitudes 5.6 and 6.7, combine into a glow of 5.2 from 213 light-years away. Because of this zodiacal position, the Moon occasionally drifts in front of it, giving astronomers brief clues about its angular size.