Star profile
HIP 10215
What is HIP 10215
Cetus, the cosmic whale, also watches over this yellow-white F-type star, slightly hotter than the Sun. Its light departed around 1871, when Heinrich Schliemann was excavating at Hisarlik, convinced he had found Troy, and archaeology changed forever. An F-class light that crossed 155 years of history and still arrives pristine in the night sky.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 10215 lies in the southern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is October, when it culminates around midnight.
- From London it culminates about 28° above the horizon.
- From New York it culminates about 39° above the horizon.
- From Sydney it culminates about 66° above the horizon.
It can be seen from anywhere south of 80° N.
It ranks no. 110 in brightness among the 111 stars of Cetus in our catalogue. To find it, start from Diphda, the brightest: it lies about 23° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 160 years ago.
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Astronomical data for HIP 10215
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Apparent magnitude
- 6.00
- Distance
- 155.3 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 32.843° · Dec -10.052°
- Catalogue
- HIP 10215 · HD 13456
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Other stars in Cetus
Cetus has 111 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- DiphdaBeta Ceti2.04
- MenkarAlpha Ceti2.54
- Eta Ceti3.46
- HIP 136795.97
- 33 Ceti5.97
- HIP 125625.98
- HIP 6715.99
- HIP 116876.00