Star profile

HIP 102026

3D likeness based on its real data · class K · ~4,200 K

What is HIP 102026

Capricornus, the old sign of the goat-fish, hosts this K-class orange at three hundred and twenty-seven light-years. Its light set out around 1699, in the months when Guillaume Delisle was publishing in Paris his map of Europe, considered the first truly modern one. A discreet, cool star that no navigator ever used as a reference and that has nonetheless held up the autumn northern sky without pause.

Where it is and when to see it

HIP 102026 lies in the southern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is July, when it culminates around midnight.

From London it culminates about 22° above the horizon.
From New York it culminates about 33° above the horizon.
From Sydney it culminates about 72° above the horizon.

It can be seen from anywhere south of 74° N.

It ranks no. 39 in brightness among the 48 stars of Capricornus in our catalogue. To find it, start from Deneb Algedi, the brightest: it lies about 16° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).

The light you see today left it about 330 years ago.

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Astronomical data for HIP 102026

Constellation: Capricornus
Apparent magnitude: 5.79
Distance: 327.5 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 310.135° · Dec -16.124°
Catalogue: HIP 102026 · HD 196857

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Other stars in Capricornus

Capricornus has 48 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.

See all 48 stars in Capricornus