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Its story
Lynx, the constellation Hevelius drew because one needed lynx-eyes to spot it, holds this orange star 527 light-years away. Its light set out around 1499, while Leonardo da Vinci was finishing The Last Supper in Milan and the Renaissance was reaching its maturity. A K-class giant arriving like a last brushstroke from that workshop.
- Constellation
- Lynx
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.98
- Distance
- 527.0 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 133.042° · Dec 42.003°
- Catalogue
- HIP 43550 · HD 75556
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