Star profile
6 Lacerta
Hot blue starWhat is 6 Lacerta
6 Lacertae burns blue more than 1,700 light-years away, one of those hot B-type stars that set the tone of the small Lizard, a modern constellation drawn by Hevelius in the seventeenth century. Its surface hovers around twenty thousand degrees and pours out ultraviolet light at a rate that dwarfs any comparison with the Sun. This flicker has been travelling since a time when Earth scarcely suspected the printing press as an invention.
Where it is and when to see it
6 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, when it culminates around midnight.
- From London it never sets and culminates about 82° up.
- From New York it culminates about 88° above the horizon.
- From Sydney it culminates about 13° above the horizon.
It can be seen from anywhere north of 47° S.
It ranks no. 7 in brightness among the 36 stars of Lacerta in our catalogue. To find it, start from Alpha Lacerta, the brightest: it lies about 7° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 1,700 years ago.
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Astronomical data for 6 Lacerta
- Constellation
- Lacerta
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.52
- Distance
- 1716.8 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 337.622° · Dec 43.123°
- Catalogue
- HIP 111104 · HD 213420
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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
- HIP 1097544.50
- 11 Lacerta4.50
- 2 Lacerta4.55
- 4 Lacerta4.55