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438 B

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a 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 magnificent open cluster NGC 6231 . ζ2 is a red giant of 3.6mag, located at a much closer distance to us - 132ly.