Star profile
HIP 111974
What is HIP 111974
In Pegasus, the winged horse, a yellow G-type star recalls the Sun in tone and chemistry, though it stands 110 light-years off. Its light departed around 1916, the year Einstein published the definitive version of General Relativity from a Berlin at war. A little over a century later, that same yellow brightness crosses the very space his equations had begun to describe.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 111974 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 culminates about 53° above the horizon.
- From New York it culminates about 64° above the horizon.
- From Sydney it culminates about 42° above the horizon.
It can be seen from anywhere north of 75° S.
It ranks no. 71 in brightness among the 98 stars of Pegasus in our catalogue. To find it, start from Enif, the brightest: it lies about 15° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 110 years ago.
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Astronomical data for HIP 111974
- Constellation
- Pegasus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.72
- Distance
- 110.2 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 340.219° · Dec 14.549°
- Catalogue
- HIP 111974 · HD 214850
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Other stars in Pegasus
Pegasus has 98 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- EnifEpsilon Pegasi2.38
- ScheatBeta Pegasi2.44
- MarkabAlpha Pegasi2.49
- HIP 1144495.68
- HIP 1080605.69
- 23 Pegasi5.69
- HIP 1092095.74
- HIP 1090235.75