Star profile
HIP 105259
Variable starWhat is HIP 105259
At 1930 light-years, in the royal crown of Cepheus, pulses a blue variable whose light set out around the first century, when Pliny the Elder was writing his «Natural History» and cataloguing the knowledge of the Roman world. Its brightness shifts in subtle rhythms that modern astronomers track to probe its inner layers. It is a restless beacon of the polar sky, suspended above the mythological realm of the Ethiopian king.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 105259 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 105259
- Constellation
- Cepheus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.51
- Distance
- 1930.2 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 319.815° · Dec 58.624°
- Catalogue
- HIP 105259 · HD 203338
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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 1107255.47
- HIP 209825.47
- HIP 144175.49
- HIP 208605.51
- HIP 1094745.52