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Xi-2
Its story
ξ² Canis Majoris shines within the Greater Dog, the constellation that hosts Sirius, the brightest star of the night sky. White and of A-type, some 441 light-years away, she is far more distant than her famous neighbour, yet shares the same celestial enclosure where the ancients saw Orion's hound chasing the hare.
- Constellation
- Canis Major
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.54
- Distance
- 441.4 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 98.764° · Dec -22.965°
- Catalogue
- HIP 31416 · HD 46933
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