Star profile
HIP 17587
What is HIP 17587
This white A-type star inhabits Camelopardalis the giraffe, a faint northern constellation barely sketched in the 17th century. Its light has traveled 991 years: it left while Christian kingdoms prepared the First Crusade and Persian astronomers refined their tables. Its surface exceeds nine thousand degrees and pours out several dozen times more energy than the Sun.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 17587 lies in the northern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is December: 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 17587
- Constellation
- Camelopardalis
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.78
- Distance
- 991.5 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 56.510° · Dec 63.345°
- Catalogue
- HIP 17587 · HD 23089
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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
- Gamma Camelopardalis4.59
- HIP 155204.74
- HIP 299974.76
- HIP 365474.92
- HIP 185054.95