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Poerava
HD 221287
Poerava is a yellow-white star, in the constellation Tucana. The light you see from it tonight left it around 1846.
Where to find it
From mid-northern latitudes, such as New York, Rome or Tokyo, it never rises: it belongs to the southern sky.
Too faint for the naked eye: you’ll need binoculars. Apparent magnitude 7.82.
What it’s like
It gives off 2.0 times as much light as the Sun.
Its surface temperature is about 6,100 degrees Celsius.
It is 180.3 light years away: 1706 trillion kilometres.