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Altais
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Its story
Altais —'the goat', from the Arabic «al-tāʾis»— is a yellow G-class giant 97 light-years away, set in the winding body of Draco that coils around the north celestial pole. Her apparent motion is exceedingly slow: in some 10,000 years she will draw near the pole and serve as polestar to human generations not yet born. The sky is not fixed but a choreography on the scale of ages.
- Constellation
- Draco
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.07
- Distance
- 97.4 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 288.138° · Dec 67.662°
- Catalogue
- HIP 94376 · HD 180711
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