Star profile
HIP 100097
What is HIP 100097
The Swan spreads its wings over the Milky Way, and some 295 light years away it shelters a white A-type star. Its light departed around 1731, when John Hadley was presenting the octant that would forever change astronomical navigation. Hotter than the Sun and of an intense white, it shares its family with stars of silvery hues and spectra dominated by hydrogen. The great celestial bird, seeming to glide down the galaxy's stream, lends it a throne among dark nebulae and clusters where young stars are born without pause.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 100097 lies in the northern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is September: the Sun sits at the opposite point of the sky and the star culminates around midnight. How high it climbs above the horizon depends on the latitude you watch from.
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Astronomical data for HIP 100097
- Constellation
- Cygnus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.76
- Distance
- 295.2 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 304.603° · Dec 55.397°
- Catalogue
- HIP 100097 · HD 193592
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Other stars in Cygnus
Cygnus has 137 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
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