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- Tonatiuh
Tonatiuh
HD 104985
Tonatiuh is a yellow giant like the Sun, in the constellation Camelopardalis. The light you see from it tonight left it around 1709.
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 5.78.
What it’s like
It gives off 40 times as much light as the Sun.
Its surface temperature is about 4,400 degrees Celsius.
It is 316.7 light years away: 2996 trillion kilometres.