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Iota Cancri

48 Cancri

Yellow bright giant in Cancer

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Proper Name	None
Bayer Designation	Iota Cancri
Flamsteed Number	48 Cancri
HR (BSC)	3475 (A), 3474 (B)
HD	74739 (A), 74738 (B)
Constellation	Cancer
Right Ascension	8h 46m 42s (A) 8h 46m 40s (B)
Declination	+28° 45' 36" (A) +28° 45' 54" (B)
Distance	347 light years / 106 parsecs (A) 337 light years / 103 parsecs (B)
Magnitude	Apparent: +4.01 (A), +6.57 (B) Absolute: -1.12 (A), +1.50 (B)
Spectral Class	G8II-III yellow bright giant (A) A2V white main sequence star (B)
Optimum Visibility	February

The bright star in the centre of this image is the yellow giant Iota Cancri A, with the fainter Iota Cancri B discernable to its immediate northwest. Based on their individual parallax measurements, these two stars lie as far as ten light years apart, but their shared motion through space suggests that they are nonetheless gravitationally related to one another. Imagery provided by Aladin sky atlas

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