Star profile
HIP 109521
What is HIP 109521
In the small Lizard that slips between Cygnus and Andromeda glows a white A-class star. Its light set out some 183 years ago, when the telegraph was beginning to weave a network that would forever change the human sense of distance. A-class stars are young and clean, rich in hydrogen, with spectra dominated by the dark lines of that element.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 109521 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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Astronomical data for HIP 109521
- Constellation
- Lacerta
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.38
- Distance
- 183.2 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 332.791° · Dec 50.823°
- Catalogue
- HIP 109521 · HD 210715
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Other stars in Lacerta
Lacerta has 36 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- Alpha Lacerta3.76
- 1 Lacerta4.14
- 5 Lacerta4.34
- 13 Lacerta5.11
- 12 Lacerta5.25
- HIP 1133275.34
- HIP 1127315.43
- HIP 1097455.53