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Alpha Crucis (α Cru α Crucis also Acrux HD 108248) is the brightest star in the constellation Crux the Southern Cross and at a combined visual magnitude 0.77 is the 13th brightest star in the night sky. Acrux is the southernmost first-magnitude star just a little more southerly than Alpha Centauri.

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