565 B
565 B
name | constellation | created_by | created_date | updated_by | updated_date |
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Kaffaljidhma (γ Cet) | Cet | 8mag | 2022-01-21 17:00:00 | skybber | 2022-01-23 18:17:59.670995 |
a beautiful close physical binary star resolved in a 100 mm telescope, with a yellow 3.5mag and white 7.3mag component. It lies at a distance of 2.8". The mutual orbital period of this pair is expected to be about several millennia. A 10th-magnitude red dwarf, also part of the system, is added in the 200 mm telescope. It lies at a distance of 14'. The entire system is about 80 light years away.