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hip-54840
Its story
An orange K-type giant in Centaurus, a sky-neighbour of Alpha Centauri but vastly more distant in space. Its light began its journey around 1602, when the Dutch East India Company was founded and global commerce took its first steps. K-type stars show a warm, amber-like colour, ideal to identify with the naked eye under rural skies free of light pollution.
- Constellation
- Centaurus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.75
- Distance
- 424.2 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 168.414° · Dec -53.232°
- Catalogue
- HIP 54840 · HD 97651
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