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Its story
Iota Ceti, also called Deneb Kaitos Shemali —«the northern tail of the Whale»— is an orange K2 III giant about 275 light-years away. Its radius has swollen to thirty times the Sun's, and it pours out 380 solar luminosities at 4,645 K. A much fainter companion shares its proper motion across the sky: a quiet pair drifting through the heavens at the same pace.
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.56
- Distance
- 274.6 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 4.857° · Dec -8.824°
- Catalogue
- HIP 1562 · HD 1522
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