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hip-46460
Its story
Within southern Carina glows a white A-type star 253 light years away. Its light set out when European astronomers were observing in 1761 the transit of Venus to measure more accurately the distance to the Sun. Hotter and more luminous than our own star, it pours forth a sharp, white gleam, without the gold of suns or the red of aged giants.
- Constellation
- Carina
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.90
- Distance
- 253.3 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 142.127° · Dec -66.702°
- Catalogue
- HIP 46460 · HD 82406
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