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Zet
Its story
Zeta Hydri shines some 284 light-years away in the small male Hydrus, a discreet near-pole constellation drawn by Bayer and Keyser in 1603. It is a white A-type star, hotter than the Sun, whose light has been travelling for nearly three centuries before sketching one of the vertices of this minor southern figure.
- Constellation
- Hydrus
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.83
- Distance
- 284.4 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 41.386° · Dec -67.617°
- Catalogue
- HIP 12876 · HD 17566
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