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Its story

In the Telescope, Telescopium, shines an orange type-K star 325 light-years away, in the small constellation that Lacaille named in honour of the astronomer's instrument. Its light departed in the eighteenth century, when Diderot and D'Alembert's Encyclopédie was being published and the Enlightenment was mapping all of human knowledge. Cooler than the Sun, its copper glow embodies the golden repose of mature giants.