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- Tianyi
Tianyi
7 Draconis
Tianyi is an orange giant, in the constellation Draco. The light you see from it tonight left it around 1285.
Where to find it
From mid-northern latitudes, such as New York, Rome or Tokyo, it never sets: it circles the pole all night, all year.
Visible to the naked eye only under a dark sky, away from town. Apparent magnitude 5.43.
What it’s like
It gives off 303 times as much light as the Sun.
Its surface is at about 3,700 degrees.
It is 741.3 light years away: 7013 trillion kilometres.