HD 6114 is a visualbinary star system in the northernconstellation ofAndromeda. With a combined apparent magnitude of 6.46,[1] the star can only be seen with the naked eye by keen-eyed observers even on the best of nights. Based upon an annualparallax shift of10.4 mas[2] as seen from Earth's orbit, the system is located approximately 108 parsecs (350 ly) distant.
The binary nature of this system was discovered byO. Struve in 1864. It consists of a magnitude 6.76 primary component with a dimmer magnitude 8.07 secondary. As of 2015 the pair had anangular separation of1.30″ along aposition angle of 175°.[3] The two stars orbit each other with aperiod of 450 years with aneccentricity of 0.80.[8]
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