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Its story
17 Canis Majoris sits within the Great Dog, the constellation ruled by Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky. It is a white A-class star about five hundred light-years away, far too distant to rival its more famous neighbours yet hot enough to radiate in bluish-white tones. Its light set out long before the southern sky began to be charted systematically.
- Constellation
- Canis Major
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.80
- Distance
- 504.2 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 103.761° · Dec -20.405°
- Catalogue
- HIP 33248 · HD 51055
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