hip-8362

Variable star

Its story

A near neighbour of the Sun —barely 32.8 light-years away— tucked among the bright tips of Cassiopeia. It is a slightly variable orange K-dwarf whose light reaches us after a short trip: it set out around 1993, the year the World Wide Web opened its first public sites and the net stopped being a military experiment.

Constellation: Cassiopeia
Apparent magnitude: 5.63
Distance: 32.8 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 26.935° · Dec 63.853°
Catalogue: HIP 8362 · HD 10780

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