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Northern polar star

Its story

Near the celestial north pole, in Camelopardalis, beats a yellow-white F-type star about 133 light-years away. Its light set out around 1893, the year of the Chicago World's Fair, when Tesla and Edison waged their current wars under electric lamps. It barely moves in the northern sky: turning slowly around the invisible axis of the world.

Constellation: Camelopardalis
Apparent magnitude: 5.52
Distance: 132.5 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 157.426° · Dec 84.252°
Catalogue: HIP 51384 · HD 89571

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