Star profile
74 Draco
Northern polar starWhat is 74 Draco
74 Draconis is an orange K0III giant, with a radius five and a half times the Sun's and a luminosity near eighteen times greater, at an effective temperature of 5,035 K. It sits within the circumpolar constellation of the Dragon, visible all night from northern temperate latitudes, and approaches the Sun at 14 km per second. NASA's TESS satellite has detected slow pulsations in its brightness.
Where it is and when to see it
74 Draco lies in the northern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is December: 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 74 Draco
- Constellation
- Draco
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.96
- Distance
- 207.9 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 307.364° · Dec 81.091°
- Catalogue
- HIP 101082 · HD 196925
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Other stars in Draco
Draco has 122 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- EltaninGamma Draco2.24
- AthebyneEta Draco2.73
- RastabanBeta Draco2.79
- HIP 809915.92
- HIP 785425.93
- HIP 772725.94
- 37 Draco5.96
- HIP 763115.97