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HD 128333

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ1749031 ↗
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HD 128333 or CH Boötis is an irregular variable star in the northern constellation of Boötes.

With an apparent magnitude of 5.7, it is faintly visibly to the naked eye under good observing conditions.

The variability of the brightness of HD 128333 was announced by Joel Stebbins and Charles Morse Huffer in 1928, based on observations made at Washburn Observatory. It was given its variable star designation, CH Boötis, in 1977.

It is currently on the asymptotic giant branch of the HR diagram.

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This entry incorporates text from “HD 128333” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.