Star profile
HIP 12686
What is HIP 12686
Four hundred and sixty light years separate this orange star of Perseus from the observer. Its current photon set out around 1565, while Philip II was ordering the foundation of St Augustine in Florida and Dutch shipyards were readying an oceanic era. A temperate K-type whose envelope has already begun to expand, shining in that copper tone the human eye reads as warmth, even though it corresponds to temperatures cooler than the Sun's.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 12686 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 12686
- Constellation
- Perseus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.85
- Distance
- 460.7 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 40.748° · Dec 53.526°
- Catalogue
- HIP 12686 · HD 16735
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Other stars in Perseus
Perseus has 99 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- MirfakAlpha Persei1.79
- AlgolBeta Persei2.09
- Zeta Persei2.84
- HIP 151925.79
- HIP 165915.79
- HIP 163405.82
- HIP 133395.86
- HIP 219725.86