COROT-2
Sign in to saveCoRoT-2 is a yellow dwarf main sequence star a little cooler than the Sun. This star is located approximately 700 light-years away in the constellation of Aquila. The apparent magnitude of this star is 12, which means it is not visible to the naked eye but can be seen with a medium-sized amateur telescope on a clear dark night.
Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- *
- Spectral type
- G7V+K9V
- Distance
- 696 light-years
- Redshift
- z = 0.00005553996419438434
- Coordinates
- RA 291.7771° · Dec 1.3837°
via SIMBAD · CDS Strasbourg
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CoRoT-2 is a yellow dwarf main sequence star a little cooler than the Sun. This star is located approximately 700 light-years away in the constellation of Aquila. The apparent magnitude of this star is 12, which means it is not visible to the naked eye but can be seen with a medium-sized amateur telescope on a clear dark night.
It has a true physical companion, 2MASS J19270636+0122577, with a spectral type of K9, as earlier hypothesized by Alonso et al. (2008), making CoRoT-2 a wide binary system with at least one planet.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “COROT-2” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.