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Its story

51 Camelopardalis inhabits the Giraffe, a late, modest constellation of the northern skies, with no bright stars to draw it clearly. It is an orange K-type giant about 329 light-years away, glowing with the copper, serene light of suns past their prime. Its brightness departed around 1697, almost the very moment Flamsteed was committing to his ledgers the very observations that would name it.