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Kang
Kap
Its story
Kang carries a name drawn straight from classical Chinese astronomy: Jiao, the horn, part of one of the twenty-eight lunar mansions that organised its sky. Physically it is an orange K-class giant 254 light years away, a discreet beacon at the edge of Virgo. Its light departed around 1770, when James Cook was charting the first precise coastlines of Australia.
- Constellation
- Virgo
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.18
- Distance
- 254.8 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 213.224° · Dec -10.274°
- Catalogue
- HIP 69427 · HD 124294
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