HAT-P-26
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HAT-P-26 is a K-type main-sequence star located about away in the constellation of Virgo. A survey in 2015 did not find any stellar companions in orbit around it, although a red dwarf companion with a temperature is suspected on wide orbit.
Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- PM*
- Spectral type
- K1
- Distance
- 466 light-years
- Redshift
- z = 0.000048634827753080145
- Coordinates
- RA 213.1564° · Dec 4.0600°
via SIMBAD · CDS Strasbourg
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Nomenclature
- Planetary system
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HAT-P-26 is a K-type main-sequence star located about away in the constellation of Virgo. A survey in 2015 did not find any stellar companions in orbit around it, although a red dwarf companion with a temperature is suspected on wide orbit.
==Nomenclature== The designation HAT-P-26 indicates that this was the 26th star found to have a planet by the HATNet Project.
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