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hip-2497
Its story
In Cassiopeia, queen of the northern W, glows an orange K-type star, coppery and serene. Its light set off 381 years ago: it left in 1644, the very year the Manchus entered Beijing and the Qing dynasty seated itself on the Dragon Throne. A cool ember among the five stars that trace the mythic queen, fixed in the north like an old crown.
- Constellation
- Cassiopeia
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.59
- Distance
- 381.1 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 7.922° · Dec 52.840°
- Catalogue
- HIP 2497 · HD 2774
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