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hip-88136
Northern polar starIts story
41 Draconis is a spectroscopic K-type binary in circumpolar Draco, just 207 light-years away from Earth. Its two orange components chase each other far too closely to be split apart by any telescope, and only the spectrum gives them away: absorption lines softly twin in step with the orbit. Because Draco never sets from European latitudes, this hidden pair shines every single night of the year.
- Constellation
- Draco
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.74
- Distance
- 207.2 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 270.038° · Dec 80.004°
- Catalogue
- HIP 88136 · HD 166866
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