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Chara
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Chara is one of the closest naked-eye neighbours we have: a quiet, yellow G-type star very similar to the Sun, just 27.5 light-years away. Its name means 'joy' in Greek, and it formed part of the two hunting hounds — Asterion and Chara — that chase the Great Bear across the northern sky. Tonight's light set out in 1998, the year the International Space Station first opened to humans.
- Constellation
- Canes Venatici
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.24
- Distance
- 27.5 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 188.436° · Dec 41.357°
- Catalogue
- HIP 61317 · HD 109358
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