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α Scuti is the brightest star of the Shield, a small constellation crafted by Hevelius in the 17th century to honour John III Sobieski. An orange K-type giant 199 light-years away, she shines above one of the densest star fields in the Milky Way, exactly toward the galactic centre, amid dust clouds and swarms of distant suns.
- Constellation
- Scutum
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.85
- Distance
- 199.1 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 278.802° · Dec -8.244°
- Catalogue
- HIP 91117 · HD 171443
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