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Upsilon Ceti is an orange giant on the flank of the cosmic whale, some 293 light-years away. Its slow, warm light crosses a constellation that ancient imagination tied to the sea monster sent against Andromeda. There, among enormous figures and heroic plots, it brings the quiet shade of dusk —not the roar, but the ember.
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.99
- Distance
- 292.8 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 30.001° · Dec -21.078°
- Catalogue
- HIP 9347 · HD 12274
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