swap_horiz Procyon Alternatives

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Alpha Centauri B

Alpha Centauri B is a slightly smaller, cooler K-type star orbiting Alpha Centauri A, together forming the nearest star...

Binary Centaurus Main Sequence K Type

9.0 Excellent

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Procyon B

The white dwarf companion to Procyon A in Canis Minor, its existence inferred from Procyon's proper-motion wobble decade...

Compact Binary White Dwarf Nearby

8.4 Great

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Shaula

Shaula is the second-brightest star in Scorpius, a multiple-star system about 570 light-years away that marks the tip of...

Bright Multiple Scorpius B Type

8.3 Great

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Xi Ursae Majoris

A quadruple star system ~27 light-years away in Ursa Major, historically significant as the first visual binary to have...

Historic Binary Ursa Major F Type

8.2 Great

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Mirfak

Alpha Persei and brightest star in Perseus, a yellow-white supergiant roughly 590 light-years away and the gravitational...

Bright Cluster Supergiant Perseus

8.0 Great

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WASP-12

A yellow dwarf star ~870 light-years away hosting WASP-12b, a hot Jupiter being tidally disrupted and slowly consumed by...

Auriga F Type Hot Jupiter Main Sequence

8.0 Great

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Porrima

Gamma Virginis, a binary system in Virgo comprising two nearly identical yellow-white stars about 38 light-years away, l...

Bright Binary Virgo F Type

7.9 Good

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Rasalhague

Alpha Ophiuchi, the brightest star in Ophiuchus, a binary star with a white primary about 47 light-years away; its Arabi...

Bright Binary Giant Ophiuchus

7.8 Good

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Denebola

Beta Leonis, the second-brightest star in Leo, a white main-sequence star about 36 light-years away and a confirmed memb...

Bright Leo Debris Disk Main Sequence

7.7 Good

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Caph

Beta Cassiopeiae, one of the five stars forming Cassiopeia's distinctive W-shape, a yellow-white pulsating giant about 5...

Bright Giant Cassiopeia Variable

7.7 Good

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Gamma Doradus

Gamma Doradus is the prototype of Gamma Doradus variables, F-type stars that pulsate in high-order gravity modes near th...

Dorado F Type Main Sequence Pulsating

7.7 Good

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Tau Boötis

Tau Boötis is a yellow-white main-sequence star about 51 light-years from Earth harboring a hot Jupiter exoplanet (Tau B...

F Type Hot Jupiter Main Sequence Bootes

7.7 Good

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Alhena

Gamma Geminorum, a white giant in Gemini about 109 light-years away and one of the brighter stars in this zodiacal const...

Bright Binary Giant Gemini

7.6 Good

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Eta Cassiopeiae

A binary star system ~19 light-years away in Cassiopeia, pairing a yellow-white primary with an orange dwarf companion a...

Binary Cassiopeia G Type Solar Analog

7.6 Good

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HD 114762

HD 114762 is a solar-type star about 132 light-years from Earth whose substellar companion, announced in 1989 by Latham...

F Type Main Sequence Early Exoplanet Coma Berenices

7.6 Good

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Alnair

Alnair is the brightest star in Grus, a blue-white subgiant about 101 light-years away whose name derives from Arabic me...

Bright Southern Grus B Type

7.5 Good

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Alsephina

Delta Velorum, the brightest star in the southern False Cross asterism in Vela, a binary system whose IAU proper name Al...

Bright Binary Giant Vela

7.4 Good

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Zavijava

Beta Virginis, an F8 main sequence star ~35.6 light-years away in Virgo, historically used as an astrometric reference p...

Bright Zodiac Virgo F Type

7.3 Good

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Syrma

ι Virginis (Syrma) is a white A-type main-sequence star in Virgo, located about 69 light-years from Earth, formally name...

Binary Zodiac Virgo F Type

6.9 Fair

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Alchiba

α Corvi (Alchiba), despite its alpha designation, is the faintest of the five main stars in Corvus, an F-type main-seque...

Yellow Binary Corvus F Type

6.7 Fair