Star profile
HIP 113174
What is HIP 113174
In Lacerta, the small lizard sliding between Cygnus and Andromeda, shines a yellow-white F-type star, slightly hotter and more luminous than the Sun. Its light crosses space for around 127 years: what we receive today departed about 1899, when Marie Curie and her husband Pierre were isolating radium and polonium in Paris, opening the age of radioactivity. Lacerta was drawn by Hevelius in the seventeenth century as a quiet wink between two celestial giants.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 113174 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: 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 113174
- Constellation
- Lacerta
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.91
- Distance
- 127.3 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 343.761° · Dec 37.077°
- Catalogue
- HIP 113174 · HD 216756
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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 1124175.84
- HIP 1112595.88
- 14 Lacerta5.91
- HIP 1120415.93
- HIP 1122415.93