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name constellation created_by created_date updated_by updated_date
61 Cygni Cyg 8mag 2022-01-21 17:00:00 skybber 2022-01-27 17:53:41.993397

this inconspicuous binary star, recognizable even with a smaller telescope, is famous for being the first to have its trigonometric parallax measured in 1838 - the distance of this constellation was determined by the German astronomer Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (he worked mainly in astrometry - he measured precisely the positions of over 50,000 stars and predicted the presence of their long-invisible guides in 1844 on the basis of an analysis of the irregular proper motion of the magnitude and Procyon).