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Its story

19 Lyncis is a triple star in Lynx, the faint constellation Hevelius named because only «a lynx's eye» could see it. A modest telescope reveals two blue-white stars of magnitudes 5.8 and 6.9 about 14.7 arcseconds apart, with a third, fainter companion several arcminutes away. The primary's surface exceeds 11,900 K —far hotter than the Sun— and forms one of those multiple systems that generously reward an amateur's first telescope.