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, when it culminates around midnight.
- From London it never sets and culminates about 88° up.
- From New York it culminates about 82° above the horizon.
- From Sydney it culminates about 7° above the horizon.
It can be seen from anywhere north of 41° S.
It ranks no. 40 in brightness among the 99 stars of Perseus in our catalogue. To find it, start from Mirfak, the brightest: it lies about 1° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 520 years ago.
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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