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hip-28562
Its story
In Auriga, the charioteer, neighbour of Capella and the kids. An orange giant burns 789 light-years away: its light departed around 1237, in the years just after Genghis Khan's death, when his heirs were pushing the Mongols toward the gates of central Europe. A mature K, peaceful, almost coppery to the trained eye.
- Constellation
- Auriga
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.98
- Distance
- 789.8 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 90.429° · Dec 48.959°
- Catalogue
- HIP 28562 · HD 40486
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