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Its story
Canis Major is more than Sirius: in the shadow of the brightest dog of the sky burns this orange ember, a quiet K-class star 617 light-years away. The light slipping into telescopes tonight set out when Portuguese sailors were rounding Africa for the first time and Columbus was still half a century from looking west. A discreet glimmer in the coat of the great dog.
- Constellation
- Canis Major
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.37
- Distance
- 616.6 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 110.871° · Dec -27.834°
- Catalogue
- HIP 35848 · HD 58215
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