Star profile
HIP 109754
What is HIP 109754
In the modest constellation of Lacerta, a K-type orange giant pours its glow toward our telescopes from roughly 482 light years away. That light set out when Renaissance Europe still debated Copernican ideas, drifting silently while modern printing and the first celestial catalogues were being shaped. Cooler than the Sun yet far larger across, it shines with the amber tone of a star that has long since outgrown its youth. Tonight it arrives like an ancient whisper among the scattered houses of the Lizard.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 109754 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 109754
- Constellation
- Lacerta
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.50
- Distance
- 482.5 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 333.470° · Dec 39.715°
- Catalogue
- HIP 109754 · HD 211073
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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
- Beta Lacerta4.42
- 11 Lacerta4.50
- 6 Lacerta4.52
- 2 Lacerta4.55
- 4 Lacerta4.55