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hip-42134
Its story
Carina offers another ember, this time orange: a cool K-type giant tinting its corner of the sky with copper. Its 222 light-years align almost exactly with Napoleon’s long march toward Moscow in 1812. The photons reaching a telescope tonight set out as that army was foundering in the Russian snow, and only now complete the journey.
- Constellation
- Carina
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.84
- Distance
- 222.1 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 128.832° · Dec -58.009°
- Catalogue
- HIP 42134 · HD 73389
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