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| Alpha Circini comparison table | ||||||||||||||||
| Subject | has right ascension | has spectral type | has declination | is part of | has surface temperature | is an instance of | has V magnitude | has color | has been observ | has B-V magnitude | has absorption line | is usually part of | is a kind of | has apparent magnitude | has synonym | has definition |
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| A star | O, B, A, and early F | 10000 K | white | H I | early star | Star with spectral type A in which the spectrum of the Balmer lines of hydrogen attain their greatest strength. Helium lines can no longer be seen. Some metallic lines are present; in late A stars the H and K lines of ionized calcium appear. A0 stars have a color index of zero. | ||||||||||
| naked eye star | Milky Way | greater than 1000 Kelvin | for many centuries | asterism | naked eye object | brighter than 5 | A star visible without visual aids | |||||||||
| Alpha Circini | 14 42 30.3 | ApSrEuCr: | -64 58 31 | Milky Way | 10000 K | naked eye star | 3.19 | white | for many centuries | 0.24 | H I | asterism | brighter than 5 | HR 5463 |
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