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Gam-2
Its story
Gamma-2 Fornacis lies 459 light-years deep within Fornax, a constellation invented by Lacaille in the eighteenth century during his South African campaign to chart the southern skies. A white A-type star, it is a quiet member of a figure filled with faint magnitudes —in the very region of the sky that also hosts the famous Hubble Deep Field of Fornax.
- Constellation
- Fornax
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.39
- Distance
- 458.8 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 42.476° · Dec -27.942°
- Catalogue
- HIP 13202 · HD 17729
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