Star profile

HIP 12562

3D likeness based on its real data · class F · ~6,500 K

What is HIP 12562

This yellow-white light left Cetus around the year 1872, when Verne was publishing «Around the World in Eighty Days» and telegrams were beginning to bind continents. It is an F-type star, somewhat hotter and more luminous than the Sun, with a discreet golden white. Cetus —the Whale— was the sea monster that Perseus defeated to free Andromeda in the Greek myth.

Where it is and when to see it

HIP 12562 lies in the southern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is October, when it culminates around midnight.

From London it culminates about 24° above the horizon.
From New York it culminates about 35° above the horizon.
From Sydney it culminates about 71° above the horizon.

It can be seen from anywhere south of 75° N.

It ranks no. 108 in brightness among the 111 stars of Cetus in our catalogue. To find it, start from Diphda, the brightest: it lies about 28° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).

The light you see today left it about 150 years ago.

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Astronomical data for HIP 12562

Constellation: Cetus
Apparent magnitude: 5.98
Distance: 154.0 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 40.392° · Dec -14.549°
Catalogue: HIP 12562 · HD 16825

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Other stars in Cetus

Cetus has 111 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.

See all 111 stars in Cetus