Star profile

37 Capricorni

3D likeness based on its real data · class F · ~6,500 K

What is 37 Capricorni

37 Capricorni is a yellow-white F-type star 88 light-years away, a relatively close neighbour set against the silhouette of the celestial Goat. Its surface, somewhat hotter than the Sun's, lends it a clean tone and a modest naked-eye glimmer at magnitude 5.7. The light glimpsed tonight set out around 1937, in the years when Bok was beginning to study the small dark globules that would bear his name.

Where it is and when to see it

37 Capricorni lies in the southern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is August, when it culminates around midnight.

From London it culminates about 18° above the horizon.
From New York it culminates about 29° above the horizon.
From Sydney it culminates about 76° above the horizon.

It can be seen from anywhere south of 70° N.

It ranks no. 35 in brightness among the 48 stars of Capricornus in our catalogue. To find it, start from Deneb Algedi, the brightest: it lies about 5° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).

The light you see today left it about 88 years ago.

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Astronomical data for 37 Capricorni

Constellation: Capricornus
Apparent magnitude: 5.70
Distance: 88.4 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 323.713° · Dec -20.084°
Catalogue: HIP 106559 · HD 205289

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Other stars in Capricornus

Capricornus has 48 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.

See all 48 stars in Capricornus