Star profile
5 Andromedae
What is 5 Andromedae
5 Andromedae is a whitish-yellow F-type star only 112 light-years away, among the closest in this batch. It belongs to Andromeda, the princess chained to the rock whom Perseus rescues, next to the mythical galaxy that shares her name. Its light takes barely more than a century to reach us: the flicker crossing the pupil tonight left its surface just as, on Earth, the Lumière brothers were projecting the first films in history.
Where it is and when to see it
5 Andromedae 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 5 Andromedae
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.68
- Distance
- 112.0 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 346.939° · Dec 49.296°
- Catalogue
- HIP 114210 · HD 218470
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Other stars in Andromeda
Andromeda has 81 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- MirachBeta Andromedae2.07
- AlpheratzAlpha Andromedae2.07
- AlmachGamma 1 Andromedae2.10
- 47 Andromedae5.60
- HIP 78255.63
- 44 Andromedae5.67
- HIP 46755.69
- 56 Andromedae5.69