Star profile
HIP 111809
Variable starWhat is HIP 111809
In the modest Piscis Austrinus flickers this white A-type variable, some four hundred and twenty-three light years out. Its light departed when the Netherlands lived its Golden Age, at the height of Vermeer and Rembrandt. The slow pulsation now being detected is the physical trace of a time when painting still explained the world better than any equation.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 111809 lies in the southern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is August, when it culminates around midnight.
- From London it culminates about 5° above the horizon.
- From New York it culminates about 16° above the horizon.
- From Sydney it culminates about 89° above the horizon.
It can be seen from anywhere south of 57° N.
It ranks no. 18 in brightness among the 26 stars of Piscis Austrinus in our catalogue. To find it, start from Fomalhaut, the brightest: it lies about 5° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 420 years ago.
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Astronomical data for HIP 111809
- Constellation
- Piscis Austrinus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.66
- Distance
- 423.6 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 339.714° · Dec -33.081°
- Catalogue
- HIP 111809 · HD 214484
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Other stars in Piscis Austrinus
Piscis Austrinus has 26 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- FomalhautAlpha Piscis Austrini1.17
- Epsilon Piscis Austrini4.18
- Delta Piscis Austrini4.20
- HIP 1135325.51
- HIP 1136695.55
- HIP 1097375.58
- HIP 1135625.66
- 8 Piscis Austrini5.73