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hip-27243
Its story
Pictor, the painter's easel, holds upon its canvas this orange K-type star, cooler and older than the Sun. Its light began travelling around 1556, the year Emperor Charles V abdicated in Brussels and imperial Europe changed hands. That copper ember crossed nearly five centuries of darkness before settling onto today's telescopes.
- Constellation
- Pictor
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.31
- Distance
- 469.4 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 86.614° · Dec -46.597°
- Catalogue
- HIP 27243 · HD 38871
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