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Tarf
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Its story
Tarf, 'the end' in Arabic, marks the southern paw of the Crab, in a constellation that is pale but ancient, threaded across its centre by the Beehive cluster of dim stars. It is a K-type orange giant about 303 light-years away — its warm, calm light set out around 1722, when the Mughal Empire still ruled northern India and Bach was composing in Leipzig.
- Constellation
- Cancer
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.53
- Distance
- 303.4 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 124.129° · Dec 9.186°
- Catalogue
- HIP 40526 · HD 69267
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