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Fuyue

G Scorpii

Orange giant in Scorpius

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Proper Name	Fuyue
Bayer Designation	G Scorpii
Flamsteed Number	None
HR (BSC)	6630
HD	161892
Constellation	Scorpius
Right Ascension	17h 49m 51s
Declination	-37° 2' 36"
Distance	132 light years 40 parsecs
Magnitude	Apparent: +3.19.4 Absolute: +0.26
Spectral Class	K2III orange giant
Optimum Visibility	June / July
Notes	Fuyue is an evolved orange giant star late in its life cycle, some twenty times the diameter of the Sun. It was originally assigned to Telescopium to the southeast, but is now formally contained within the constellation of Scorpius.

The bright mass to the immediate east (left) of Fuyue is not another star, but a distant globular cluster. This cluster, NGC 6441, lies nearly forty thousand light years from the Sun, a little under three hundred times more distant than the foreground star Fuyue. Imagery provided by Aladin sky atlas

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