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A complex system of stars just under a hundred light years from the Earth's Solar System. The two major components are Rho Capricorni A and Rho Capricorni D. These form a distant pair in comparison with most multiple systems: they are at least an eighth of a light year from one another. This is the most prominent pair of stars in a quintuple system close to the ecliptic in the constellation of Capricornus.

The bright star to the immediate southeast of Rho Capricorni is not part of that multiple system, but an unrelated optical double. This is seventh-magnitude HD 194960, an orange giant some four times farther from the Sun than Rho Capricorni. Imagery provided by Aladin sky atlas

The apparent magnitude for the system as a whole is +4.80, making it just bright enough to be seen as a faint point by the naked eye. Its absolute magnitude is somewhat brighter, +2.40, and if it lay ten parsecs from the Earth, it would appear as bright as Merak, the southern star of the two Pointers in the Plough.

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