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Optical double star, whose components at a separation of 6.4" can be easily resolved even with a small telescope. The fainter one has a magnitude of 8mag. The brighter one changes its brightness every 40 hours, as it is an eclipsing variable star of the Algol type. It changes its brightness from 3.9mag to 4.4mag, which can be easily observed with the naked eye.