Star profile
HIP 117265
Hot blue starWhat is HIP 117265
High in Cepheus, the northern king, burns a blue-white B-type star, young and vastly hotter than the Sun. Its light set out close to 1,490 years ago, when Hagia Sophia was rising in Constantinople and the Byzantine empire was weaving a luminous bridge between Antiquity and the Middle Ages. It arrives now with the clean edge of a bluish sun that has crossed fifteen centuries without losing its character.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 117265 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 117265
- Constellation
- Cepheus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.95
- Distance
- 1489.5 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 356.653° · Dec 66.782°
- Catalogue
- HIP 117265 · HD 223128
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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
- HIP 148445.92
- HIP 1073745.94
- HIP 1167145.95
- HIP 1085055.96
- HIP 1057275.97