Star profile
HIP 124
Highly luminous starWhat is HIP 124
In Cassiopeia, the queen seated on her celestial throne, burns this white-yellow F-type star, extraordinarily luminous, a true supergiant. Its light set out 3,077 years ago, around the 11th century BCE, when the peoples of the eastern Mediterranean were rebuilding their world after the Late Bronze Age collapse. Though faint to the naked eye, its intrinsic brilliance surpasses the Sun's a thousandfold: distance dissolves every trace of its grandeur.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 124 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 HIP 124
- Constellation
- Cassiopeia
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.58
- Distance
- 3077.4 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 0.404° · Dec 61.223°
- Catalogue
- HIP 124 · HD 224893
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Other stars in Cassiopeia
Cassiopeia has 93 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- CihGamma Cassiopeiae2.15
- SchedarAlpha Cassiopeiae2.24
- CaphBeta Cassiopeiae2.28
- 32 Cassiopeiae5.57
- 43 Cassiopeiae5.57
- HIP 1149245.58
- HIP 19215.58
- HIP 136655.59