Star profile
6 Triangulum
Variable starWhat is 6 Triangulum
6 Trianguli lies 291 light-years away, in one of the smallest constellations in the northern sky —Triangulum, three stars sketching an almost childlike geometry. It is an F-type variable dwarf, faintly shifting in brightness and shining a yellowish-white hotter than the Sun. Visible to the naked eye under dark skies, it shares its corner with the galaxy M33, neighbour to Andromeda.
Where it is and when to see it
6 Triangulum lies in the northern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is November: 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 6 Triangulum
- Constellation
- Triangulum
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.94
- Distance
- 290.7 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 33.093° · Dec 30.303°
- Catalogue
- HIP 10280 · HD 13480
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Other stars in Triangulum
Triangulum has 18 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- Beta Triangulum3.00
- MothallahAlpha Triangulum3.42
- Gamma Triangulum4.03
- Delta Triangulum4.84
- 14 Triangulum5.15
- 7 Triangulum5.25
- 10 Triangulum5.29
- 12 Triangulum5.29