Eps

Its story

Epsilon Draconis winds along one of the coils of Draco, that long constellation that loops around the north celestial pole and never sets for northern observers. It is a yellow G-type giant some 148 light-years away, a double system whose components can be split in a modest telescope. Its golden light marks, with its neighbors, the neck of the mythical monster that once guarded the golden apples of the Hesperides.