Star profile
HIP 103460
What is HIP 103460
In Capricornus shines a white star about 179 light-years away. Its light set out around 1847, when Charlotte Brontë was publishing Jane Eyre and telegrams were beginning to abolish distances. Hotter than the Sun, its surface radiates a clean white —like the edge of a new moon held still above the southern summer horizon.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 103460 lies in the southern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is August: 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 103460
- Constellation
- Capricornus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.89
- Distance
- 178.9 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 314.419° · Dec -16.032°
- Catalogue
- HIP 103460 · HD 199443
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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
- 4 Capricorni5.86
- HIP 1027725.86
- 44 Capricorni5.88
- 17 Capricorni5.91
- Omicron Capricorni5.94