Star profile
4 Lacerta
Hot blue starWhat is 4 Lacerta
4 Lacertae is a hot blue star lodged in a late, modest constellation —the Lizard, sketched by Hevelius in the seventeenth century to fill the gap between Cygnus and Andromeda. Almost 2,250 light-years away, its light was launched near the close of the first millennium: no human eye watching the sky then could have guessed the spark was a B-type giant burning hydrogen at savage temperatures.
Where it is and when to see it
4 Lacerta 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 4 Lacerta
- Constellation
- Lacerta
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.55
- Distance
- 2249.7 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 336.129° · Dec 49.476°
- Catalogue
- HIP 110609 · HD 212593
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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
- 11 Lacerta4.50
- 6 Lacerta4.52
- 2 Lacerta4.55
- 9 Lacerta4.64
- 10 Lacerta4.89