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Epsilon Eridani
Mouse cursor over Sky Map shows star labels. Cursor over the green "focus" marker reveals "distance view," where larger stars are closer. (Browser must allow scripts or be Javascript enabled to view these details. Sky Map view from "Stars in the NeighborHood" software) |
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Sky Position:
When you move your mouse cursor over the Sky Map, at left, you can see that Epsilon Eridani is not far from the foot of the great hunter, Orion, and south of Taurus. |
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Hover mouse cursor over distance scale to change from parsecs to light years.
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Looking back toward Sol from Epsilon Eridani. (Sky Map view from "Stars in the NeighborHood" software) |
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Alien Skies™:
Our home star, Sol, is moderately bright in the night skies of Epsilon Eridani. Arcturus, though, is noticeably brighter, but more than four times as far away.
Our sun is tagged by the yellow focus marker when you hover your mouse cursor over the Sky Map. Cursor over either the yellow or green marker will reveal the distance view.
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View from Epsilon Eridani toward nearby BD +00° 988 and beyond to the Coma Cluster. (Sky Map view from "Stars in the NeighborHood" software) |
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Alien Skies™:
The actual brightness of individual stars varies greatly. If lined up, side-by-side, and placed at ten parsecs (33 light years) distance, most would be invisible without a telescope, yet some would be painfully bright. Against the backdrop of the far more distant Coma Cluster, one of Epsilon Eridani's next-door neighbors (BD +00° 988) seems barely visible, though only 1.53 parsecs close. The cluster stars are more than fifty times farther.
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