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Wide visual pair of unrelated stars distinguishable even with the naked eye. It consists of the blue-white giant ζ1, which is the brightest member (4.7mag) of the beautiful open star cluster NGC 6231. ζ2 is a red giant with a magnitude of 3.6, which is located much closer to us - 132 light-years away.