Star profile
HIP 107374
Hot blue starWhat is HIP 107374
Nearly three thousand light years away in Cepheus: the light reaching us today from this rare hot O-type star set off around the year 967, in the heyday of the Cordoban caliphate and as Byzantium was reclaiming ground from the Arabs. O-type stars are the hottest and most massive in the spectral catalogue, rare and extremely short-lived in cosmic terms. To see one is to glimpse an uncommon object.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 107374 lies in the northern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is October: 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 107374
- Constellation
- Cepheus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.94
- Distance
- 2992.7 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 326.222° · Dec 62.461°
- Catalogue
- HIP 107374 · HD 207198
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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 1041055.91
- HIP 1049685.92
- HIP 148445.92
- HIP 1167145.95
- HIP 1172655.95