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The Giraffe is another modest figure invented by 17th century cartographers to fill a void in the north. There glows an orange class K star, cooler and more golden than the Sun. Its light took almost 700 years to arrive: it left when Marco Polo was still a fresh name in Venice and journeys to Asia were opening trade routes Europeans had never walked before.

Constellation
Camelopardalis
Apparent magnitude
5.75
Distance
698.5 light years
Coordinates (J2000)
RA 100.120° · Dec 77.996°
Catalogue
HIP 31940 · HD 45866

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