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hip-4200
Variable starIts story
Seven hundred and twelve light years to the south, in Tucana, pulses a variable red M-class giant. The light gathered today set off around 1314, in the late Middle Ages, when the Templars were being dissolved by the king of France. Its warm tone and irregular pulse betray an old, dilated star, swinging between maxima and minima over months or years.
- Constellation
- Tucana
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.73
- Distance
- 712.2 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 13.408° · Dec -62.871°
- Catalogue
- HIP 4200 · HD 5276
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