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hip-50799
Its story
Within the stellar current of Vela —once the stern of the great ship Argo— drifts this orange giant, a calm K-type whose light has been travelling 204 years. It set out near 1822, the year Champollion deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphs; the first modern readers of ancient Egypt and this photon set sail almost together.
- Constellation
- Vela
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.82
- Distance
- 203.9 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 155.582° · Dec -41.650°
- Catalogue
- HIP 50799 · HD 89998
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