Star profile
HIP 103810
Hot blue starWhat is HIP 103810
It glitters white and bluish in Cepheus, that discreet figure near the northern celestial pole, about 922 light years away. Its light set out around 1104, when the Crusaders were consolidating their presence in the Holy Land and Chinese astronomers were recording the birth of the Crab Nebula. B-type, young and very hot, it radiates with that blue signature proper to stars that burn fast and shine fiercely. A crisp flame in the quietest region of the northern sky.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 103810 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 103810
- Constellation
- Cepheus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.83
- Distance
- 921.5 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 315.538° · Dec 56.670°
- Catalogue
- HIP 103810 · HD 200614
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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 1116605.80
- HIP 130555.80
- HIP 996635.81
- Rho 1 Cepheus5.83
- HIP 1082265.84