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But Delta Cancri also acts as more than just a dubious weather guide: it is a reliable signpost for finding the vividly red star X Cancri as Patrick Moore notes in his guidebook Stars of the Southern Skies:
“In the same binocular field with Delta you will find one of the reddest stars in the sky: X Cancri. It is a semi-regular variable; at maximum it rises to magnitude 5 and it never falls below 7.3 so that it can always be seen with binoculars. It looks rather like a tiny glowing coal.” —Page 146, Moore, 1994.Delta Cancri also marks the radiant of the Delta Cancrids meteor shower.
In 1876, the possibility of Delta Cancri having a companion star was proposed.
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