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Nihal
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Its story
Nihal is the second light of Lepus, the Hare, lying just at the feet of the hunter Orion. Its Arabic name «al-nihāl» evokes a group of camels quenching their thirst at a spring, a pastoral image the desert astronomers carried up to the sky. It is a yellow giant 160 light-years away; when you look at it, remember that its golden tone is the same as a Sun on the edge of maturity.
- Constellation
- Lepus
- Apparent magnitude
- 2.81
- Distance
- 160.4 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 82.061° · Dec -20.759°
- Catalogue
- HIP 25606 · HD 36079
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