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Rh some distant snow-clad peak gleaming in the rays of sunset after all the lower mountains have sunk into the blue shadows of coming night."

The star ε Hydræ presents a paradox. It is a double star. The brighter star, of the third magnitude, is sixteen times brighter than its companion, yet the fainter star has six times the mass of the brighter.