Star profile
HIP 113048
What is HIP 113048
In Lacerta, the little lizard of the northern sky, glows a white A-type star about 186 light-years away. Its light began its journey around 1840, when William Henry Fox Talbot was refining the calotype and photography was learning to fix light. Hotter than the Sun, its bluish-white tone belongs to stars still in their full youth.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 113048 lies in the northern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is October, when it culminates around midnight.
- From London it never sets and culminates about 83° up.
- From New York it culminates about 86° above the horizon.
- From Sydney it culminates about 11° above the horizon.
It can be seen from anywhere north of 45° S.
It ranks no. 27 in brightness among the 36 stars of Lacerta in our catalogue. To find it, start from Alpha Lacerta, the brightest: it lies about 7° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 190 years ago.
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Astronomical data for HIP 113048
- Constellation
- Lacerta
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.79
- Distance
- 185.7 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 343.417° · Dec 44.749°
- Catalogue
- HIP 113048 · HD 216608
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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
- HIP 1113625.72
- HIP 1115465.73
- HIP 1132225.73
- HIP 1125905.82
- HIP 1130845.82