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HD 224693, also named Axólotl, is a star in the equatorial constellation of Cetus, and is positioned near the western constellation border with Aquarius. It can be viewed with a small telescope but is too faint to be seen with the naked eye, having an apparent visual magnitude of 8.23. [ 2 ]
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Bliss, originally titled Bucolic Green Hills, is the default wallpaper of Microsoft's Windows XP operating system. It is a photograph of a green rolling hills and daytime sky with cirrus clouds . Charles O'Rear , a former National Geographic photographer, took the photo in January 1998 near the Napa – Sonoma county line, California, after a ...
The spectrum of HD 181720 presents as an ordinary G-type main-sequence star with a stellar classification of G1V. [3] It is an older star with an estimated age of roughly 12 billion years [5] and a minimal level of magnetic activity in its chromosphere. [3] The star has 87% of the mass of the Sun but the radius is now 42% larger than the Sun's. [5]
HD 131399 is a star system in the constellation of Centaurus.Based on the system's electromagnetic spectrum, it is located around 350 light-years (107.9 parsecs) away. [5] The total apparent magnitude is 7.07, [5] but because of interstellar dust between it and the Earth, it appears 0.22 ± 0.09 magnitudes dimmer than it should be.
HD 222925 is a horizontal branch star about 1,470 light years away in the southern constellation Tucana. It is magnitude 9, far below naked-eye visibility. It is an Ap star, a type of chemically peculiar star with an over-abundance of certain metals in its spectrum. HD 222925 has been referred to as the 'gold standard star' by the media. [8]
HD 192310 (also known as 5 G. Capricorni or Gliese 785) is a star in the southern constellation of Capricornus. It is located in the solar neighborhood at a distance of 28.7 light-years (8.8 parsecs ), and is within the range of luminosity needed to be viewed from the Earth with the unaided eye.
A red giant star with one of the largest ranges in brightness known of stars in the night sky visible to the unaided eye. Despite its large radius, it is less massive than the Sun. 119 Tauri (CE Tauri, Ruby Star) 587 – 593 [71] AD ρ Cassiopeiae: 564 ± 67 – 700 ± 112 [72] AD