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hip-12623
Its story
12 Persei is a yellow-white F-type star 79 light-years away, close enough for its parallax to have been measured cleanly by the Hipparcos mission. It outshines the Sun a little, yet keeps the architecture of quiet suns. It belongs to the stellar backdrop of Perseus, the hero who, in the northern winter sky, holds aloft the masked head of Medusa.
- Constellation
- Perseus
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.91
- Distance
- 78.9 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 40.562° · Dec 40.194°
- Catalogue
- HIP 12623 · HD 16739
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