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hip-46701
Variable starIts story
Orange, slow, blinking. This K-type giant rests in the keel of Vela, where its brightness shifts night after night following an internal pulse astronomers still chart. The light reaching the telescope tonight set out around 1786, while Mozart premiered «The Marriage of Figaro» in Vienna. Two hundred and thirty-nine years of travel for a warm flicker barely visible to the naked eye in the southern sky.
- Constellation
- Vela
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.16
- Distance
- 239.0 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 142.806° · Dec -57.034°
- Catalogue
- HIP 46701 · HD 82668
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