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Adhara
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Adhara shines in Canis Major with the intense blue typical of its B class, drifting some 405 light years from here. Its name comes from the Arabic «al-ʿadhārā», the virgins, a small grouping that medieval astronomers placed at the feet of the celestial dog. The light arriving tonight set out around 1620, while Galileo was still defending his lunar maps before the Church.
- Constellation
- Canis Major
- Apparent magnitude
- 1.50
- Distance
- 405.2 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 104.656° · Dec -28.972°
- Catalogue
- HIP 33579 · HD 52089
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