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Proper Name	None
Bayer Designation	None
Flamsteed Number	None
HR (BSC)	8299
HD	206642
Constellation	Grus
Right Ascension	21h 44m 29s
Declination	-38° 33' 9"
Distance	875 light years 268 parsecs
Magnitude	Apparent: +6.3 Absolute: -0.8
Spectral Class	G5III yellow giant
Optimum Visibility	August / September
Notes	A distant yellow-orange giant star, HR 8299 lies near the northern tip of Grus the Crane. Some twenty times the Sun's diameter, and nearly two hundred times as luminous, its great distance of nearly nine hundred light years means that it shines at a faint sixth magnitude in the skies of Earth.

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