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Its story

At 219 light years in the Crow, this yellow-white F-type star shines at magnitude 6, right on the boundary between what is visible and invisible to the naked eye. Its light began its journey around 1807, on the eve of the Spanish War of Independence and during the Napoleonic expedition. Somewhat hotter than the Sun, it occupies one of the small constellations of the spring sky, where the Crow recalls with its quadrangular geometry the old legends of Apollo and the lost spring.