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hip-96178
Variable starIts story
In the southern Telescope, another of the technical constellations Lacaille named after scientific instruments, a white variable star pulses 397 light-years away. Its light departed just as Galileo —in delicious irony— had begun the very use of the telescope. The star oscillates faintly, as if winking back at the constellation that observes it.
- Constellation
- Telescopium
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.59
- Distance
- 396.8 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 293.340° · Dec -45.272°
- Catalogue
- HIP 96178 · HD 183806
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