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hip-17585
Its story
In the discreet Giraffe —a constellation invented in 1612 by Plancius to fill the polar desert of the sky— beats a yellow-white star 181 light-years away. Its light set out around 1844, when Morse was sending the first telegram and the speed of information changed forever. An F-type shines between the Sun's gold and the giants' white: warm, exact, almost musical.
- Constellation
- Camelopardalis
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.79
- Distance
- 180.8 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 56.504° · Dec 67.202°
- Catalogue
- HIP 17585 · HD 23005
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