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hip-87491
Its story
An orange star in Ophiuchus, the serpent-bearer. Its light crossed 367 years of space: when it set out, plague was ravaging London and Christopher Wren was designing the new St Paul's after the great fire of 1666. A K-class star, calmer than the Sun, it shines with a soft amber tone, evocative of bonfires hanging in the summer sky.
- Constellation
- Ophiuchus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.91
- Distance
- 367.8 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 268.148° · Dec 1.305°
- Catalogue
- HIP 87491 · HD 162774
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