Star profile
HIP 14862
What is HIP 14862
Within Cassiopeia's W-shaped throne burns this white type A star, 165 light-years away. Her light departed around 1860, while Pasteur was defending germ theory and America was sinking into civil war. She bears no written legend: only the heat of her hydrogen fusing, identical to Vega's, identical to Sirius'.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 14862 lies in the northern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is December, when it culminates around midnight.
- From London it never sets and culminates about 67° up.
- From New York it never sets and culminates about 56° up.
- From Sydney it never rises above the horizon.
It can be seen from anywhere north of 16° S.
It ranks no. 23 in brightness among the 93 stars of Cassiopeia in our catalogue. To find it, start from Cih, the brightest: it lies about 18° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 170 years ago.
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Astronomical data for HIP 14862
- Constellation
- Cassiopeia
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.85
- Distance
- 165.4 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 47.984° · Dec 74.394°
- Catalogue
- HIP 14862 · HD 19275
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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
- HIP 41514.80
- Upsilon 1 Cassiopeiae4.83
- 1 Cassiopeiae4.84
- Tau Cassiopeiae4.88
- Sigma Cassiopeiae4.88