Star profile
HIP 105898
What is HIP 105898
A white light, cool and precise, set within the body of the Swan as it flies down the Milky Way. At 411 light-years, its flash departed when Kepler was publishing his laws of planetary motion and beginning to dismantle the medieval universe forever. A young, chemically distinct A-class star that now deposits that century of reason into our eyes.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 105898 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, when it culminates around midnight.
- From London it never sets and culminates about 87° up.
- From New York it culminates about 82° above the horizon.
- From Sydney it culminates about 7° above the horizon.
It can be seen from anywhere north of 41° S.
It ranks no. 64 in brightness among the 137 stars of Cygnus in our catalogue. To find it, start from Deneb, the brightest: it lies about 9° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 410 years ago.
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Astronomical data for HIP 105898
- Constellation
- Cygnus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.29
- Distance
- 411.3 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 321.715° · Dec 48.835°
- Catalogue
- HIP 105898 · HD 204411
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Other stars in Cygnus
Cygnus has 137 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- DenebAlpha Cygni1.25
- SadrGamma Cygni2.23
- AljanahEpsilon Cygni2.48
- 61 Cygni5.20
- 71 Cygni5.22
- HIP 999685.27
- 70 Cygni5.30
- HIP 962885.34