Star profile
HIP 15890
Variable starWhat is HIP 15890
More than 2,000 light-years away, in discreet Camelopardalis, beats a red star whose brightness shifts over time. Its light departed as the Western Roman Empire entered its twilight and Germanic peoples crossed the frozen Rhine. It is a cool class M giant, with surfaces below 4,000 K, and its variability reveals slow pulsations in the outer layers. Each cycle is a stellar breath that repeats over months or years.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 15890 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 15890
- Constellation
- Camelopardalis
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.13
- Distance
- 2051.6 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 51.169° · Dec 64.586°
- Catalogue
- HIP 15890 · HD 20797
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Other stars in Camelopardalis
Camelopardalis has 75 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- Beta Camelopardalis4.03
- HIP 162284.21
- Alpha Camelopardalis4.26
- HIP 251105.08
- HIP 162925.09
- 43 Camelopardalis5.11
- 42 Camelopardalis5.14
- HIP 595045.14