Star profile
HIP 103545
Variable starWhat is HIP 103545
It belongs to Aquarius, the water-bearer, one of the oldest zodiacal constellations of the Mediterranean world. White in color and of A class, it radiates with a temperature plainly above the Sun's. Its light set out around 284 years ago, when the French encyclopedists were preparing the edition of Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopédie, monument of Enlightenment thought. It is a variable with a discreet pulse, enough to register the slow beating of its atmosphere. It shines with a firm white among the signs that figure the celestial water-bearer's jar.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 103545 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 103545
- Constellation
- Aquarius
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.95
- Distance
- 284.4 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 314.674° · Dec -14.483°
- Catalogue
- HIP 103545 · HD 199603
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Other stars in Aquarius
Aquarius has 99 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- SadalsuudBeta Aquarii2.90
- SadalmelikAlpha Aquarii2.95
- SkatDelta Aquarii3.27
- HIP 1105325.92
- HIP 1175415.93
- HIP 1136865.94
- HIP 1163685.95
- 45 Aquarii5.96