hip-111925

Hot blue star

Its story

In small Lacerta, wedged between Cygnus and Andromeda, shines a blue star at 367 light-years. Its light began its journey around 1659, when Christiaan Huygens was identifying Saturn's rings and publishing his Systema Saturnium. It is class B, with a very hot surface and emission tilted toward the ultraviolet. A discreet blue jewel in a modern constellation, only defined in the seventeenth century.

Constellation: Lacerta
Apparent magnitude: 5.94
Distance: 366.5 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 340.077° · Dec 53.846°
Catalogue: HIP 111925 · HD 214878

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