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Star · G8V

Pr0211

Pr0211 is a main-sequence star of spectral type G8V in the constellation Cancer, 595.9 light-years from the Sun. It is orbited by 2 confirmed exoplanet(s).

ConstellationCancer
Distance595.9 light-years (182.7 pc)
Apparent magnitudemagnitude 12.16
Absolute magnitudemagnitude 5.85
Spectral typeG8V
Surface temperature5,300 K
Luminosity0.461 L☉
Radius0.827 R☉
Mass0.935 M☉
Age0.6 billion years
Metallicity [Fe/H]0.18
Right ascension (J2000)8h 42m 11.5s
Declination (J2000)+19° 16′ 37″
Space velocity (relative to the Sun)33.6 km/s

In the sky

A telescope is needed to see it: its apparent magnitude is 12.16. Visible from the whole Northern Hemisphere and south to latitude 71° S. North of latitude 71° N it never sets. It stands highest at midnight in January, the best time to observe it.

Through a telescope from Earth

Light's journey

The light you see tonight set out around the year 1430. At the speed of Voyager 1, the fastest craft leaving the Solar System (16.9 km per second), the trip would take 11 million years.

The Sun seen from there

From a planet around Pr0211, the Sun would look like a star of magnitude 11.14, in the direction where our sky has the constellation Capricornus. It would be invisible to the naked eye.

Planets

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Stellar parameters from the NASA Exoplanet Archive; position and brightness from the HYG / AT-HYG catalogue.