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hip-19461
Northern polar starIts story
Near the celestial north pole, within Cepheus, beats a yellow G-type star, a distant sister of the Sun some 380 light-years away. Its light set out around 1646, when Pascal was exploring the vacuum with his mercury barometers. It barely shifts for an observer in the northern hemisphere —holding almost still, like a yellow candle hung from the axis of the sky.
- Constellation
- Cepheus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.10
- Distance
- 379.7 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 62.512° · Dec 80.699°
- Catalogue
- HIP 19461 · HD 25007
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