Star profile
95 Ceti
What is 95 Ceti
95 Ceti looks out from the body of the great sea-monster that stretches beneath Pisces —a constellation so vast it required more than a hundred Flamsteed numbers to describe. It is an orange K-type giant whose warm light crosses 219 years to reach us. Its gilded tone stands out softly against the dark background of a hemispheric sky the Mediterranean watched every autumn.
Where it is and when to see it
95 Ceti lies in the southern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is November, when it culminates around midnight.
- From London it culminates about 38° above the horizon.
- From New York it culminates about 48° above the horizon.
- From Sydney it culminates about 57° above the horizon.
It sits almost on the celestial equator, so it can be seen from nearly the whole planet.
It ranks no. 71 in brightness among the 111 stars of Cetus in our catalogue. To find it, start from Diphda, the brightest: it lies about 42° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 220 years ago.
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Astronomical data for 95 Ceti
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.62
- Distance
- 219.1 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 49.593° · Dec -0.930°
- Catalogue
- HIP 15383 · HD 20559
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Other stars in Cetus
Cetus has 111 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- DiphdaBeta Ceti2.04
- MenkarAlpha Ceti2.54
- Eta Ceti3.46
- HIP 17285.61
- HIP 96225.61
- 93 Ceti5.62
- Phi 4 Ceti5.62
- 49 Ceti5.62