Star profile
HIP 109693
Northern polar starWhat is HIP 109693
Near the northern celestial pole, where ancient sailors once sought their bearing, shines a bluish star whose light crossed two hundred and fifty-six years of space. When it set out, the Age of Enlightenment was beginning to redraw Europe. It is a young, hot sun whose surface easily doubles the six thousand degrees of our own, with an unmistakable blue-white radiance. It belongs to that circumpolar neighbourhood which never sets for northern observers —a steady companion of the night.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 109693 lies in the northern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is December: 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 109693
- Constellation
- Cepheus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.27
- Distance
- 256.6 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 333.293° · Dec 86.108°
- Catalogue
- HIP 109693 · HD 212710
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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 1138645.25
- 18 Cepheus5.26
- 20 Cepheus5.27
- HIP 1095925.37
- 7 Cepheus5.42