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bright giant comparison table |
Subject | has right ascension | has spectral type | has declination | is part of | has surface temperature | has rotation velocity | is an instance of | has V magnitude | has color | has been observ | has B-V magnitude | has distance | has absorption line | has relative abundance | has lifetime | is usually part of | has apparent magnitude | has synonym | has definition |
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Alpha Hydrae | 9 27 35.2 | K3II-III | -8 39 31 | Milky Way | 3600 to 5000 K | naked eye star | 1.98 | orange to red | for many centuries | 1.44 | asterism | brighter than 5 | Alphard | ||||||
Alpha Lyncis | 9 21 3.2 | K7IIIab | +34 23 33 | Milky Way | 3600 to 5000 K | naked eye star | 3.13 | orange to red | for many centuries | 1.55 | asterism | brighter than 5 | HR 3705 | ||||||
Alpha Reticuli | 04 14 25.5 | G8II-III | -62 28 26 | Milky Way | 5000 to 6000 K | naked eye star | 3.35 | yellowish | for many centuries | 0.91 | asterism | brighter than 5 | HR 1336 | ||||||
Alpha Sculptoris | 0 58 36.3 | B7IIIp | -29 21 28 | Milky Way | 11000 to 28000 K | naked eye star | 4.31 | blue-white | for many centuries | -0.16 | He I | asterism | brighter than 5 | HR 280 | |||||
Alpha Trianguli Australis | 16 48 39.9 | K2IIb-IIIa | -69 01 40 | Milky Way | 3600 to 5000 K | naked eye star | 1.92 | orange to red | for many centuries | 1.44 | asterism | brighter than 5 | HR 6217 | ||||||
Arcturus | 14 15 39.6 | K1IIIbCN-1 | +19 10 57 | Milky Way | 3600 to 5000 K | naked eye star | -0.04 | orange to red | for many centuries | 1.23 | asterism | brighter than 5 | HR 5340 | An old subgiant disk star (K2 IIIp, mv = 0.06) about 11 pc distant. | |||||
Beta Trianguli | 2 9 32.5 | A5II | +34 59 14 | Milky Way | 10000 K | naked eye star | 3.00 | white | for many centuries | 0.14 | H I | asterism | brighter than 5 | HR 622 | |||||
Mintaka | O9.5II | Orion | 35000 K | very high | bright giant | blue-white | He II | rare | 3 to 6 million years | One of the three stars in Orion's belt, and the star along whose line of sight interstellar gas was first spectroscopically detected. | |||||||||
Pollux | 7 45 18.9 | K0IIIb | +28 1 34 | Milky Way | 3600 to 5000 K | naked eye star | 1.14 | orange to red | for many centuries | 1.00 | 11 pc | asterism | brighter than 5 | HR 2990 | A K0 III star. |
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