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Delta Fornacis is a blue giant spinning at 185 km/s within a little-celebrated constellation, Fornax, sketched by Lacaille in the eighteenth century. It shines with nearly thirteen hundred times the Sun's luminosity and, despite its distance, surfaces faintly to the human eye: a small blue ember lost in a quiet region of the southern sky.
- Constellation
- Fornax
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.99
- Distance
- 847.3 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 55.562° · Dec -31.938°
- Catalogue
- HIP 17304 · HD 23227
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