Star profile
HIP 106003
What is HIP 106003
Cygnus spreads its luminous cross across the summer Milky Way, and there glows this yellow-white star — slightly hotter than our Sun but of the same familiar air. Its light took about 146 years to arrive: it set out when Edison was lighting his first electric bulbs and the world's cities were learning, at last, to defy the night. Ironically that same human light would later wash the night sky away from many; but stars like this still arrive, faithful, for those who still raise their eyes.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 106003 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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A public signature from a real person. The chosen name is a symbolic denomination within Stelvia, with no official standing or IAU recognition: the sky is not for sale and belongs to no one.
Astronomical data for HIP 106003
- Constellation
- Cygnus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.75
- Distance
- 145.9 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 322.034° · Dec 32.225°
- Catalogue
- HIP 106003 · HD 204485
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Other stars in Cygnus
Cygnus has 137 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
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- SadrGamma Cygni2.23
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