Star profile
HIP 16147
Hot blue starWhat is HIP 16147
In the star fields of Perseus burns a blue-white B-type sun, so hot its surface easily exceeds ten thousand degrees. The light now reaching our telescopes set out around the fifteenth century, when Gutenberg was printing his first Bible in Mainz and the written word began its revolution across Europe. Far more massive and luminous than the Sun, this star lives in a hurry, burning nuclear fuel with an intensity ours will never know.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 16147 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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A public signature from a real person. The chosen name is a symbolic denomination within Stelvia, with no official standing or IAU recognition: the sky is not for sale and belongs to no one.
Astronomical data for HIP 16147
- Constellation
- Perseus
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.99
- Distance
- 524.4 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 52.013° · Dec 49.063°
- Catalogue
- HIP 16147 · HD 21278
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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
- 24 Persei4.94
- 32 Persei4.96
- 40 Persei4.97
- 4 Persei4.99
- HIP 152195.04