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Proper Names	Alsciaukat, Mabsuthat
Bayer Designation	None
Flamsteed Number	31 Lyncis
HR (BSC)	3275
HD	70272
Variable Designation	BN Lyncis
Constellation	Lynx
Right Ascension	8h 22m 50s
Declination	+43° 11' 17"
Distance	382 light years 117 parsecs
Magnitude	Apparent: +4.23 Absolute: -1.12
Spectral Class	K4.5III orange giant
Optimum Visibility	February
Notes	This orange giant lies in central Lynx, within the faintly starred region of the sky between Ursa Major and Gemini. Alsciaukat is a semiregular pulsating variable star, whose magnitude can change slightly from +4.21 to +4.27. This change takes place over a period of days or weeks, but the length of this period is not fully predictable.

Imagery provided by Aladin sky atlas

The orange giant Alsciaukat in Lynx, seen from the cloudtops of a hypothetical nearby planet.

Alsciaukat is a variable star whose brightness changes periodically by several hundredths of a magnitude.

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