Star profile
HIP 109620
Cool red starWhat is HIP 109620
In Cepheus, the mythical Ethiopian king, burns a red M-type giant whose light set out around 1077, when Gregory VII and Henry IV faced each other at Canossa. Far cooler than the Sun yet hundreds of times more luminous, it shows the deep red of stars approaching the end of their existence. Its dense, warm glow arrives after nearly a thousand years of silent travel.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 109620 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 109620
- Constellation
- Cepheus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.76
- Distance
- 948.3 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 333.094° · Dec 63.291°
- Catalogue
- HIP 109620 · HD 211029
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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 1068865.74
- 13 Cepheus5.74
- 25 Cepheus5.75
- HIP 1116605.80
- HIP 130555.80