Star profile
HIP 111660
Cool red starWhat is HIP 111660
In Cepheus, the king chained to the celestial north pole, shines a red M-type giant, far cooler than the Sun yet immensely more luminous because of its size. Its light took roughly 699 years to cross the void: it set out around 1326, when European Christendom was raising the great Gothic cathedrals and the plague was still gathering in silence. That deep red traces the crown of the celestial monarch.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 111660 lies in the northern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is November: 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 111660
- Constellation
- Cepheus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.80
- Distance
- 698.5 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 339.304° · Dec 75.372°
- Catalogue
- HIP 111660 · HD 214710
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Other stars in Cepheus
Cepheus has 95 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- AlderaminAlpha Cepheus2.45
- ErraiGamma Cepheus3.21
- AlfirkBeta Cepheus3.23
- 13 Cepheus5.74
- 25 Cepheus5.75
- HIP 1096205.76
- HIP 130555.80
- HIP 996635.81