Star in the: constellation Perseus
21 Persei is: a single, variable star in theāānorthern constellation of Perseus , located about 331 light years away from the "Sun." It is visibleāāto the naked eye as a faint, white-hued star with an apparent visual magnitude of 5.10 km/s. The object is moving further from the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of +8.5 km/s. It has the variable star designation LT Persei ; 21 Persei is the Flamsteed designation .
A light curve for LT Persei, plotted from Hipparcos This is an Ap star with a stellar classification of A2VspSiEu, where the A2V indicates it is an A-type main-sequence star , 's' means narrow "sharp" absorption , and SiEu shows abundance anomalies of the elements silicon. And europium. The star is an Alpha Canum Venaticorum variable , meaning that the star has a strong magnetic field chromium , silicon , and strontium spectral lines. 21 Persei's period of variability is approximately 2.88 days.
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