Zeta Piscis Austrini, Latinized from ζ Piscis Austrini, is an orange-hued

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in the southern constellation of Piscis Austrinus. It has an apparent visual magnitude of +6.43, which is near the lower limit of stars that can be seen with the naked eye. Based upon an annual

parallax Parallax is a displacement or difference in the apparent position of an object viewed along two different lines of sight and is measured by the angle or semi-angle of inclination between those two lines. Due to foreshortening, nearby objects ...

shift of 7.55

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as seen from the Gaia telescope, the star is located 413 ± 2

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s from the Sun. This is an

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K-type giant star with a

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of K1 III. It is a suspected

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