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hip-85382
Its story
Hercules, the hero hanging between Lyra and the Northern Crown, holds here a white class A star. Its photon made the journey in 288 years: it left when Lavoisier was guillotining chemical myths and the encyclopedists were redrawing European knowledge. The light carries no philosophical baggage, only a precise temperature and a clean white color on the demigod's shoulder.
- Constellation
- Hercules
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.94
- Distance
- 288.4 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 261.692° · Dec 34.696°
- Catalogue
- HIP 85382 · HD 158261
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