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Its story
The Whale, Cetus, that great sea-monster of the equatorial sky, harbours this white A-class star. Its light departed around 1770, the year Tiepolo died in Madrid and the teenage composer Mozart made his first public appearances in Italy. More than two and a half centuries later, that white glow crosses the monster's back and lands in our sensors.
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.93
- Distance
- 255.6 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 1.945° · Dec -22.509°
- Catalogue
- HIP 636 · HD 319
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