Star profile
HIP 111362
What is HIP 111362
Lacerta, the autumn-sky lizard, guards this yellow G-type star 345 light-years away. Its light set out around 1681, the year the dodo finally vanished from Mauritius according to the last recorded sightings. As one species was disappearing on an Indian Ocean island, this star was dispatching the photons now arriving at magnitude 5.72, a faint echo of a baroque century.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 111362 lies in the northern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is October: 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 111362
- Constellation
- Lacerta
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.72
- Distance
- 344.5 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 338.419° · Dec 56.625°
- Catalogue
- HIP 111362 · HD 213930
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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
- HIP 1097455.53
- 16 Lacerta5.60
- HIP 1098315.72
- HIP 1115465.73
- HIP 1132225.73