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Proper Name	None
Bayer Designation	None
Flamsteed Number	None
HR (BSC)	160
HD	3444
Constellation	Tucana
Right Ascension	0h 36m 38s
Declination	-65° 7' 28"
Distance	712 light years 218 parsecs
Magnitude	Apparent: +6.4 Absolute: -0.2
Spectral Class	K2-3III Orange Giant
Optimum Visibility	October (Usually visible from southern latitudes)
Notes	A faint orange star in Tucana, to the north of the Small Magellanic Cloud in the skies of Earth. Though too faint to be seen by the naked eye, distant HR 160 is an orange giant emitting more than a hundred times the light of the Sun.

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