11-March-2006, 04:54 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2002
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You can add HD 98618 in the Big Dipper to the list. It's the second-best solar twin ever found (after 18 Scorpii). Details here.
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HD 98618 shines so brightly that you don't need a telescope to see it. Instead, binoculars suffice, because its visual magnitude is 7.66. Furthermore, from most of the United States, all of Canada, all of Europe, and most of Japan, HD 98618 is circumpolar--it never sets, so it's visible any time the sky is dark and clear. Its epoch 2000 coordinates are right ascension 11 hours, 21 minutes, 29 seconds; declination +58 degrees, 29 minutes, 4 seconds.
Be forewarned, however: when you look at this star, someone may be looking back.
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