Star profile
HIP 17203
Hot blue starWhat is HIP 17203
In Perseus burns a very hot, blue-tinted star of B type, one of those furnace embers whose brightness reaches us from nearly eight hundred and twenty years ago. Its light set out in the heart of the European Middle Ages, when Gothic cathedrals were rising and master glaziers were fitting their rose windows. Far hotter and more luminous than the Sun, it gives off a violent blue glow, proper to young and powerful stars. It is a sharp, cold point to the eye, a furnace spark hung within the figure of the hero who carries Medusa's head.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 17203 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 17203
- Constellation
- Perseus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.55
- Distance
- 821.7 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 55.283° · Dec 37.580°
- Catalogue
- HIP 17203 · HD 22780
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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
- HIP 184345.49
- 50 Persei5.52
- 1 Persei5.53
- HIP 202345.55
- HIP 162105.58