Beta Cancri

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Beta Cancri is the brightest star in the zodiacal constellation of Cancer. The star has the proper name Tarf, pronounced ; Beta Cancri is its Bayer designation. It is visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of +3.5, and has an absolute magnitude of −1.2.

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Image: IAU and Sky & Telescope magazine (Roger Sinnott & Rick Fienberg), CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.