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hip-17798
Its story
In Eridanus, already far south of its source, glows an orange K-type star. Its light has been travelling for 593 years: it set off around 1432, the very year the Portuguese discovered the Azores islands in their Atlantic advance. Cooler than the Sun, it appears in the celestial river like a discreet lantern, held up by the current of its own constellation.
- Constellation
- Eridanus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.81
- Distance
- 593.1 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 57.149° · Dec -20.903°
- Catalogue
- HIP 17798 · HD 23978
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