Star profile
HIP 104371
Variable starWhat is HIP 104371
In Cygnus, that elongated cross flying over the summer Milky Way, pulses a variable blue-white B-class star whose light set out over three and a half centuries ago, in the days when Newton was publishing the Principia. Its brightness does not hold still: it breathes in a slow, subtle rhythm. Hot and luminous, it travels through Cygnus's crowded fields like a beacon softly blinking over one of the year's loveliest stellar roads.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 104371 lies in the northern 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 104371
- Constellation
- Cygnus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.60
- Distance
- 377.5 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 317.162° · Dec 30.206°
- Catalogue
- HIP 104371 · HD 201433
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