Star profile
HIP 109737
What is HIP 109737
Within the solitary Southern Fish, Piscis Austrinus, shines a yellow-white type F star, somewhat hotter and more luminous than the Sun. Its light took roughly 253 years to cross the void: it set out when the French encyclopédistes were publishing their volumes and a young Mozart improvised his first concertos in Salzburg. It now arrives faint, almost at the edge of vision —a pale glimmer on the southern horizon of the autumn sky.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 109737 lies in the southern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is August, when it culminates around midnight.
- From London it culminates about 13° above the horizon.
- From New York it culminates about 24° above the horizon.
- From Sydney it culminates about 81° above the horizon.
It can be seen from anywhere south of 65° N.
It ranks no. 17 in brightness among the 26 stars of Piscis Austrinus in our catalogue. To find it, start from Fomalhaut, the brightest: it lies about 11° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 250 years ago.
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Astronomical data for HIP 109737
- Constellation
- Piscis Austrinus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.58
- Distance
- 252.5 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 333.435° · Dec -25.181°
- Catalogue
- HIP 109737 · HD 210848
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Other stars in Piscis Austrinus
Piscis Austrinus has 26 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- FomalhautAlpha Piscis Austrini1.17
- Epsilon Piscis Austrini4.18
- Delta Piscis Austrini4.20
- Lambda Piscis Austrini5.45
- HIP 1135325.51
- HIP 1136695.55
- HIP 1118095.66
- HIP 1135625.66