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HD 157819 is the Henry Draper Catalogue designation for a star in the southern constellation of Ara. It is faintly visible to the naked eye at an apparent visual magnitude of 5.94 and is approximately 1000 light-years (310 parsecs) distant from the Earth. The spectrum of this star fits a stellar classification of G8 II-III indicating it is a G-type star that is somewhere between the giant and bright giant stages of its evolution.