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Its story
Monoceros, the Unicorn, is a modern constellation slipping between Orion and Canis Major. There glows a clean, contained white light of class A. Its photon set out 236 years ago: at that time the Montgolfier brothers had just lifted the first human being in a hot air balloon, and the sky finally stopped being an unreachable territory for the living.
- Constellation
- Monoceros
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.87
- Distance
- 236.4 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 96.665° · Dec -1.507°
- Catalogue
- HIP 30666 · HD 45320
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