Star profile
HIP 113561
Variable starWhat is HIP 113561
Listed as a yellow Sun-like star of Cassiopeia, its distance baffles: 326,200 light-years places it beyond any ordinary Milky Way star —likely a peculiar luminosity or a still ill-measured distant giant. The figure alone humbles the human calendar: when that photon set out, Homo sapiens had not yet walked the Earth.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 113561 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: 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 113561
- Constellation
- Cassiopeia
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.10
- Distance
- 326200.0 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 345.021° · Dec 56.945°
- Catalogue
- HIP 113561 · HD 217476
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Other stars in Cassiopeia
Cassiopeia has 93 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- CihGamma Cassiopeiae2.15
- SchedarAlpha Cassiopeiae2.24
- CaphBeta Cassiopeiae2.28
- 4 Cassiopeiae4.96
- Omega Cassiopeiae4.97
- HIP 28545.08
- HIP 122735.17
- Mu Cassiopeiae5.17