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hip-29808
Its story
Four hundred light years separate this white A-type of Columba —the dove that Lacaille separated from the old ship Argo— from the observer. Its current photon left around 1625, the year Charles I ascended the English throne and Bernini was sculpting the baldachin of St Peter's. A small constellation easily eclipsed by its southern neighbours, where this star offers a discreet, clean glow.
- Constellation
- Columba
- Apparent magnitude
- 6.00
- Distance
- 402.2 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 94.148° · Dec -39.264°
- Catalogue
- HIP 29808 · HD 43847
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