Star profile
HIP 103598
What is HIP 103598
It pulses in Cepheus, near the northern celestial pole, that region of sky which barely grazes the horizon. An orange K-type star, cooler and older than the Sun, glowing with the warm tones of a banked ember. Its light began its journey some 615 years ago, when Joan of Arc was leading the French troops at Orléans, in the thick of the Hundred Years' War. A warm point in the northernmost sky.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 103598 lies in the northern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is September: 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 103598
- Constellation
- Cepheus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.54
- Distance
- 615.5 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 314.856° · Dec 59.439°
- Catalogue
- HIP 103598 · HD 200205
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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
- 26 Cepheus5.52
- HIP 1062275.53
- 12 Cepheus5.53
- 14 Cepheus5.55
- HIP 1148315.55