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Proper Name	None
Bayer Designation	None
Flamsteed Number	None
HR (BSC)	8233
HD	204873
Constellation	Indus
Right Ascension	21h 33m 18s
Declination	-52° 44' 16"
Distance	849 light years 260 parsecs
Magnitude	Apparent: +6.40 Absolute: -0.68
Spectral Class	K4III orange giant
Optimum Visibility	August / September (Usually visible from southern latitudes)
Notes	An orange giant star lying more than eight hundred light years from the Sun in the northerly parts of the constellation Indus. It is more than two hundred times as luminous as the Sun, and if it lay ten parsecs from the Solar System (the standard for calculating absolute magnitude) it would shine more brightly in the sky than any star but Sirius.

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