Star in the constellation Draco
Rho Draconis (ρ Draconis ) is a solitary[ 10] star in the northern circumpolar constellation of Draco . It is faintly visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of 4.52.[ 2] Based upon an annual parallax shift of 7.61 mas as measured from Earth,[ 1] it is located around 429 light years from the Sun . At that distance, the visual magnitude of the star is diminished by an extinction factor of 0.027 due to interstellar dust .[ 5]
With a stellar classification of K3 III,[ 3] Rho Draconis is a normal giant star that is past the first dredge-up phase of its post-main sequence evolution .[ 7] It has the peculiar spectrum of a CN star , showing abnormal line strengths for cyanogen and calcium.[ 11] The star has expanded to around 28[ 3] times the Sun's radius and it is radiating 402[ 6] times the solar luminosity from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 4,370 K.[ 7]
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