Epsilon Circini

Epsilon Circini (ε Cir), is a star located in the constellation Circinus. Epsilon Circini is also known as HR 5666, and HD 135291. The star is located at Right Ascension 15h 17m 39s and Declination -63 deg 36 arcmin 38 arcsec.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Epsilon Circini is a K2.5III giant star with an effective temperature of 4300 Kelvin. It has an apparent visual magnitude +4.86, an absolute magnitude of -0.442 and a mass of 1.1 solar masses. The star is 114 parsecs (372 light years), from the Sun.

References

Circinus constellation

Stars (list)

Bayer	α β γ δ ε ζ η θ

Variable	T AX BP BU BW BX CO

HR	5194 5218 5242 5253 5293 5295 5320 5379 5382 5391 5408 5443 5465 5482 5486 5515 5546 5623 5632 5645 5661 5680 5700

HD	129092 129445 130021 130942 131491 133557 134657

Other	Circinus X-1 PSR B1451-68 PSR B1509-58 WR 66 WR 70

Star clusters

Open	NGC 5288 NGC 5359 NGC 5715 NGC 5823

Nebulae

Planetary	NGC 5315

SNR	G315.4-2.3

Pulsar wind	MSH 15-52

Galaxies

Circinus Galaxy

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