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hip-36348
Hot blue starIts story
In the cold northern constellation of the Lynx, a hot blue B-class star shines from some five hundred light years away. The photon observed today departed around 1525, when Flemish workshops were painting Charles V and Pizarro was preparing his first voyage to Peru. The constellation itself was sketched by Hevelius in the seventeenth century, who warned that only the lynx-eyed could discern its stars.
- Constellation
- Lynx
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.70
- Distance
- 499.5 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 112.215° · Dec 48.184°
- Catalogue
- HIP 36348 · HD 58661
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