Star profile
HIP 108226
Hot blue starWhat is HIP 108226
In Cepheus, the Ethiopian king of the polar sky, burns this blue-tinged B-class ember, hotter than the Sun and over a thousand light-years away. Its light set out around the year 1000, at the millennium's turn, when Vikings were reaching what is now Newfoundland and Europe was holding its breath before a supposed end of the world. Today that blue wave crowns the king's head and ends here.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 108226 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 108226
- Constellation
- Cepheus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.84
- Distance
- 1025.8 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 328.879° · Dec 65.321°
- Catalogue
- HIP 108226 · HD 208682
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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 996635.81
- HIP 1038105.83
- Rho 1 Cepheus5.83
- HIP 194545.84
- HIP 1163805.86