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hip-48339
Its story
Orange and steady 771 light-years away in Carina: the light seen tonight set out around 1255, when Marco Polo had not yet been born and the Silk Road still linked the Yuan dynasty to the Mediterranean. A quiet K giant, one of the thousands of orange furnaces catalogued by Hipparcos at the end of the 20th century.
- Constellation
- Carina
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.79
- Distance
- 771.2 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 147.800° · Dec -59.426°
- Catalogue
- HIP 48339 · HD 85655
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