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Beta Crateris marks the base of the Cup, the small chalice that hangs from the back of the Hydra in old star charts. A white type-A star, it lies about 340 light-years away. When its light set out toward us, the first refracting telescopes were just appearing in Dutch workshops. Crater is a constellation of the ancient Greek sky, already catalogued by Ptolemy in the second century.
- Constellation
- Crater
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.46
- Distance
- 340.1 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 167.915° · Dec -22.826°
- Catalogue
- HIP 54682 · HD 97277
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