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hip-84105
Variable starIts story
Ara, the altar of the southern sky where the ancients imagined sacrifices smouldering, hosts this variable red giant 1,113 light-years away. Its light departed around the tenth century, while Persian astronomers such as al-Sufi were cataloguing stars and drawing the first Arab constellations. An M-class flame, cool and trembling, crossing a whole millennium.
- Constellation
- Ara
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.94
- Distance
- 1113.3 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 257.911° · Dec -48.873°
- Catalogue
- HIP 84105 · HD 155035
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