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hip-6226
Its story
42 Ceti, an A-class star, shines with clean white light about 328 light-years away within the outline of the celestial Whale. Its surface, far hotter than the Sun s, gives it that pale, luminous tone that betrays a young, energetic nature. The light reaching us tonight left around 1700, at the dawn of the Enlightenment.
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.87
- Distance
- 328.5 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 19.951° · Dec -0.509°
- Catalogue
- HIP 6226 · HD 8036
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