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Zet
Its story
Zeta Scuti is an orange spectroscopic binary of type K0 III, set in one of the youngest constellations in the sky: Scutum, sculpted by Hevelius in the seventeenth century in honour of the Polish king John III Sobieski. About 207 light-years away, it shines over one of the densest stellar fields of the Milky Way, exactly where the galactic plane thickens and fills with clusters like M11, the Wild Duck Cluster, its most celebrated neighbour.
- Constellation
- Scutum
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.66
- Distance
- 206.7 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 275.915° · Dec -8.934°
- Catalogue
- HIP 90135 · HD 169156
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