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Gam-1
Highly luminous starIts story
Gamma1 Normae is an extraordinarily luminous F-type star, set some 1,470 light-years away inside the small constellation of the carpenter's rule. Its light, still perceptible to the naked eye despite the enormous distance, reveals a star vastly brighter than the Sun; what we see today left its surface centuries before the first circumnavigation of the globe.
- Constellation
- Norma
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.97
- Distance
- 1469.4 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 244.254° · Dec -50.068°
- Catalogue
- HIP 79790 · HD 146143
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