Star profile
HIP 103219
What is HIP 103219
Yellow and discreet in Cepheus, the circumpolar constellation that never sets for northern observers. Its light has been crossing space for 405 years —it departed around 1621, when Kepler published his Epitome Astronomiae Copernicanae and consolidated the heliocentric model. A G-type giant, an old cousin of the Sun, burning the same warm colour at far greater scale.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 103219 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 HIP 103219
- Constellation
- Cepheus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.99
- Distance
- 405.7 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 313.685° · Dec 75.926°
- Catalogue
- HIP 103219 · HD 200039
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Other stars in Cepheus
Cepheus has 95 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- AlderaminAlpha Cepheus2.45
- ErraiGamma Cepheus3.21
- AlfirkBeta Cepheus3.23
- HIP 1172655.95
- HIP 1085055.96
- HIP 1057275.97
- HIP 1167285.98
- HIP 1050806.00