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Gam
Variable starIts story
Gamma Circini is a visual binary and variable star, in one of the smallest and most retiring constellations of the southern sky, Lacaille's Compass. The primary is a hot blue-white subgiant; a yellow companion orbits beside it, splittable through a good telescope. An unequal pair of suns at 449 light-years, quietly close to the foot of Centaurus.
- Constellation
- Circinus
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.48
- Distance
- 448.7 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 230.844° · Dec -59.321°
- Catalogue
- HIP 75323 · HD 136415
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