The furthest point a star reaches in its circuit around the centre of a galaxy.

One of the two apsides of its motion. The other, the opposite point, is its perigalacticon. The apogalacticon of our Sun is about 31 800 light years, and is about 7% further out than the perigalacticon (the orbital eccentricity is 0.07).

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