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Xi
Variable starIts story
Xi Phoenicis is a variable A-type star 219 light-years away, in the modern constellation of the Phoenix drawn by Dutch navigators across the maps of the southern sky. Its small brightness pulsations place it among the so-called Delta Scuti variables — stars that vibrate like bells with periods of just a few hours, too subtle for the naked eye but plain to the photometer.
- Constellation
- Phoenix
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.72
- Distance
- 218.6 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 10.443° · Dec -56.501°
- Catalogue
- HIP 3277 · HD 3980
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