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hip-41191
Southern polar starIts story
In Chamaeleon, almost pinned to the southern celestial pole, pulses a yellow G-type star about 248 light-years away. Its light began its voyage around 1778, while James Cook sailed the Pacific and charted archipelagos for Europe. It shares its colour with the Sun yet shines from a sky scarcely known to the northern hemispheres.
- Constellation
- Chamaeleon
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.67
- Distance
- 247.5 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 126.085° · Dec -80.914°
- Catalogue
- HIP 41191 · HD 72922
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