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hip-47717
Its story
A white A-class star in Vela, 343 light-years away: the light arriving tonight broke free around 1683, the year of the second Ottoman siege of Vienna. One of those A-stars that distribute their glow with restraint, without myths or ancient catalogs—only modern coordinates and a temperature enough to tint cold-white any telescope field.
- Constellation
- Vela
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.56
- Distance
- 343.0 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 145.926° · Dec -53.891°
- Catalogue
- HIP 47717 · HD 84461
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