Star profile
HIP 102772
Hot blue starWhat is HIP 102772
Capricorn is the oldest of the zodiacal signs, a goat-fish hybrid documented as far back as Babylon. There burns this B-class blue-white star, almost a thousand light-years away. Its light left the star around 1060, when the Normans were consolidating their conquest of southern Italy. Surface above ten thousand degrees, cold colour to the eye but an atmosphere so hot that its atoms barely keep their electrons.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 102772 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: 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 102772
- Constellation
- Capricornus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.86
- Distance
- 965.1 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 312.323° · Dec -25.781°
- Catalogue
- HIP 102772 · HD 198174
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Other stars in Capricornus
Capricornus has 48 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- Deneb AlgediDelta Capricorni2.85
- DabihBeta Capricorni3.05
- AlgediAlpha 2 Capricorni3.58
- HIP 1020265.79
- Xi 2 Capricorni5.84
- 4 Capricorni5.86
- 44 Capricorni5.88
- HIP 1034605.89