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Sign in to saveWASP-61 is a single F-type main-sequence star about 1,580 light-years away in the constellation Lepus. The star is likely younger than the Sun at approximately 3.8 billion years. WASP-61 is depleted in heavy elements, having just 40% of the solar abundance of iron.
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- Distance from Earth
- 480
- Radius
- 1.36
- Mass
- 1.22
- Image
- WASP-61.jpg
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- metallicity
- -0.123
- catalog code
- TIC 13021029
- effective temperature
- 6250
- radial velocity
- 18.863
- apparent magnitude
- 12.060715
- parallax
- 2.0649
- spectral class
- F7
- stellar rotational velocity
- 10.3
- surface gravity
- 20000
- luminosity
- 2.6632113
- right ascension component of proper motion
- 0.532
- declination component of proper motion
- 3.233
- age estimated by a dating method
- 3.8
- right ascension
- 75.29966114819
- declination
- -26.05415767877
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WASP-61 is a single F-type main-sequence star about 1,580 light-years away in the constellation Lepus. The star is likely younger than the Sun at approximately 3.8 billion years. WASP-61 is depleted in heavy elements, having just 40% of the solar abundance of iron.
==Planetary system== In 2012 a transiting superjovian planet, WASP-61b, was detected on a tight, circular orbit. Its equilibrium temperature is .
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