Star profile
HIP 107887
Hot blue starWhat is HIP 107887
Within the spread wings of Pegasus shines a blue-white type B star, young and far hotter than the Sun. Its light took roughly 527 years to cross the void: it set out when Leonardo da Vinci was sketching his flying machines in Milan and Christopher Columbus was returning from his second voyage to the New World. It now arrives as a bluish heartbeat, suspended on the back of the winged horse that gallops eternally across the autumn skies of the north.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 107887 lies in the northern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is August: 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 107887
- Constellation
- Pegasus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.78
- Distance
- 527.0 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 327.893° · Dec 19.827°
- Catalogue
- HIP 107887 · HD 207840
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Other stars in Pegasus
Pegasus has 98 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- EnifEpsilon Pegasi2.38
- ScheatBeta Pegasi2.44
- MarkabAlpha Pegasi2.49
- 52 Pegasi5.76
- HIP 1068975.77
- 80 Pegasi5.77
- HIP 1094715.78
- 25 Pegasi5.79