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hip-91461
Its story
Telescopium —the constellation Lacaille named in honour of the instrument that revealed it— holds this A-type white at 357 light-years. Its light crossed the vacuum while Newton was grinding his first reflecting telescopes in Cambridge and opening a new way to observe the sky. It took three and a half centuries to reach the eye waiting for it.
- Constellation
- Telescopium
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.84
- Distance
- 356.9 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 279.810° · Dec -47.910°
- Catalogue
- HIP 91461 · HD 171819
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