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Asellus Australis
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Its story
Asellus Australis is «the southern donkey», companion to the northern donkey that grazes beside the manger of Cancer, the cluster Praesepe. Greco-Roman tradition imagined these animals lent to the gods to defeat the Titans. An orange K-class giant 130 light years away, it is a warm gleam in a zodiacal region otherwise faint in lights.
- Constellation
- Cancer
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.94
- Distance
- 130.6 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 131.171° · Dec 18.154°
- Catalogue
- HIP 42911 · HD 74442
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