Star profile
HIP 111546
Hot blue starWhat is HIP 111546
In Lacerta, the lizard that winds between Cygnus and Andromeda, a blue B-type star burns at about 2160 light-years. Its light set out more than two millennia ago, when Christianity was just beginning to spread across the Mediterranean and the Roman Empire was living its first decades. Tens of thousands of times brighter than the Sun, its bluish-white glow reaches us as a very slow echo of antiquity.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 111546 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 78° up.
- From New York it culminates about 89° above the horizon.
- From Sydney it culminates about 16° above the horizon.
It can be seen from anywhere north of 50° S.
It ranks no. 25 in brightness among the 36 stars of Lacerta in our catalogue. To find it, start from Alpha Lacerta, the brightest: it lies about 11° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 2,200 years ago.
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Astronomical data for HIP 111546
- Constellation
- Lacerta
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.73
- Distance
- 2160.3 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 338.968° · Dec 39.634°
- Catalogue
- HIP 111546 · HD 214167
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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
- 16 Lacerta5.60
- HIP 1098315.72
- HIP 1113625.72
- HIP 1132225.73
- HIP 1130485.79