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Its story
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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