hip-114831

Variable star

Its story

In the circumpolar realm of Cepheus beats a yellow-white flame of changing brightness, 379 light-years away. Its light set out around 1647, when Hevelius was publishing his hand-drawn lunar atlas in Danzig. F-type variables tend to pulse with startling precision: that is why, in other contexts, they have served as golden rulers to measure the scale of the cosmos.

Constellation: Cepheus
Apparent magnitude: 5.55
Distance: 379.3 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 348.907° · Dec 70.888°
Catalogue: HIP 114831 · HD 219586

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