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This yellow-white light left Cetus around the year 1872, when Verne was publishing «Around the World in Eighty Days» and telegrams were beginning to bind continents. It is an F-type star, somewhat hotter and more luminous than the Sun, with a discreet golden white. Cetus —the Whale— was the sea monster that Perseus defeated to free Andromeda in the Greek myth.
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.98
- Distance
- 154.0 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 40.392° · Dec -14.549°
- Catalogue
- HIP 12562 · HD 16825
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