Star profile
HIP 100256
What is HIP 100256
At 262 light years in the Dolphin, this white A-type star glows at magnitude 5.96. Its light set out around 1764, when James Watt was patenting his improved steam engine in Glasgow. The small constellation of the Dolphin, which the Greek imagination dedicated to the rescuer of Arion, hosts modest points like this one, where the cold white of A-type stars mingles with the dust of the summer Milky Way.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 100256 lies in the northern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is August: 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 100256
- Constellation
- Delphinus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.96
- Distance
- 262.0 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 305.001° · Dec 13.548°
- Catalogue
- HIP 100256 · HD 193472
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Other stars in Delphinus
Delphinus has 18 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- RotanevBeta Delphinus3.64
- SualocinAlpha Delphinus3.77
- AldulfinEpsilon Delphinus4.03
- 16 Delphinus5.54
- 13 Delphinus5.57
- Theta Delphinus5.69
- HIP 1036755.69
- HIP 1019095.99