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Eta
Its story
η Reticuli shines in the Reticle, a small, little-known southern constellation drawn in the 18th century to honour the reticle —the fine cross of threads set in telescope eyepieces to measure positions—. A yellow G-type star some 385 light-years away, she offers an older, more luminous version of the Sun.
- Constellation
- Reticulum
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.24
- Distance
- 384.7 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 65.472° · Dec -63.386°
- Catalogue
- HIP 20384 · HD 28093
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