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Kepler-61 is a K-type main-sequence star approximately 1,100 light years from Earth in the constellation Cygnus. It is located within the field of vision of the Kepler spacecraft, the satellite that NASA's Kepler Mission used to detect planets that may be transiting their stars. On April 24, 2013 it was announced that the star has an extrasolar planet (a super-Earth) orbiting in the inner edge of the habitable zone, named Kepler-61b.

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Constellation
Cygnus
Child body
Kepler-61 Ab
Distance from Earth
338.24
Diameter
877000
Radius
0.62
Mass
0.64
Variable-star type
rotating variable star
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catalog code
Kepler-61A
effective temperature
4017
parallax
2.9296
apparent magnitude
15.037025
surface gravity
40380
spectral class
K7V
epoch
J2000.0
metallicity
0.108
right ascension component of proper motion
-2.066
declination component of proper motion
10.687
right ascension
295.30450631421
declination
42.47527332554
radial velocity
-51.005199
stellar rotational velocity
3.823
age estimated by a dating method
3.63

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