Star profile
HIP 116380
Highly luminous starWhat is HIP 116380
At 2104 light-years in Cepheus, this highly luminous orange giant pours into space hundreds —perhaps thousands— of times the Sun's energy. Its light set out when the Romans were marching through the Gauls under Caesar, and Latin was becoming, unknowingly, the mother tongue of half a continent for the centuries to come.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 116380 lies in the northern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is November: 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 116380
- Constellation
- Cepheus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.86
- Distance
- 2104.5 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 353.746° · Dec 71.642°
- Catalogue
- HIP 116380 · HD 221861
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Other stars in Cepheus
Cepheus has 95 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- AlderaminAlpha Cepheus2.45
- ErraiGamma Cepheus3.21
- AlfirkBeta Cepheus3.23
- Rho 1 Cepheus5.83
- HIP 1082265.84
- HIP 194545.84
- HIP 1041715.88
- HIP 1099725.88