Star profile
19 Piscium
Variable starWhat is 19 Piscium
19 Piscium is a white A-type star, variable and distant —almost 900 light-years separate its brightness from ours. Its light pulses, faintly oscillating, as if breathing. It belongs to Pisces, a zodiacal constellation poor in bright stars but immense in depth. When you observe this point, what you receive set out when the Black Death was still far from Europe. A white light with its own heartbeat.
Where it is and when to see it
19 Piscium 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, when it culminates around midnight.
- From London it culminates about 42° above the horizon.
- From New York it culminates about 53° above the horizon.
- From Sydney it culminates about 53° above the horizon.
It can be seen from anywhere north of 87° S.
It ranks no. 23 in brightness among the 79 stars of Pisces in our catalogue. To find it, start from Alpherg, the brightest: it lies about 28° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 900 years ago.
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Astronomical data for 19 Piscium
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.95
- Distance
- 898.6 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 356.598° · Dec 3.487°
- Catalogue
- HIP 117245 · HD 223075
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Other stars in Pisces
Pisces has 79 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- AlphergEta Piscium3.62
- Gamma Piscium3.70
- AlreschaAlpha Piscium3.82
- Mu Piscium4.84
- 27 Piscium4.88
- Kappa Piscium4.95
- 47 Piscium5.01
- 7 Piscium5.05