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hip-78649
Its story
The Northern Crown, that half-circle of gems in the region of Boötes, guards a white A-type star 655 light-years away. Its light departed around 1371, in the thick of the Hundred Years’ War between France and England. The sharpness of its 9,000-degree surface arrives today as a spark of magnitude 5.79: a luminous memory of the late Middle Ages suspended in the diadem.
- Constellation
- Corona Borealis
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.79
- Distance
- 655.0 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 240.831° · Dec 36.632°
- Catalogue
- HIP 78649 · HD 144208
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