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Lambda Muscae
Lambda Muscae, Latinized from λ Muscae, and often catalogued HD 102249 or HIP 57363, is a triple star system and the fourth-brightest star in the Southern Hemisphere constellation of Musca (the Fly). Lambda Muscae visibly makes up the far end of the tail of the visual Musca constellation. It is one of the stars catalogued in astronomer Johann Bayer's 1603 publications Uranometria.
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Lambda Muscae, Latinized from λ Muscae, and often catalogued HD 102249 or HIP 57363, is a triple star system and the fourth-brightest star in the Southern Hemisphere constellation of Musca (the Fly). Lambda Muscae visibly makes up the far end of the tail of the visual Musca constellation. It is one of the stars catalogued in astronomer Johann Bayer's 1603 publications Uranometria.
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