Star profile
52 Persei
Highly luminous starWhat is 52 Persei
52 Persei stands almost a thousand light-years away, a distance that marks it as a true beacon: to remain visible from so far, it must outshine the Sun by a wide margin. It is a yellow giant of G class, set within the heroic outline of Perseus. The light we see now departed when Europe was living through the late crusades, long before the printing press was even imagined.
Where it is and when to see it
52 Persei 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, when it culminates around midnight.
- From London it never sets and culminates about 79° up.
- From New York it culminates about 90° above the horizon.
- From Sydney it culminates about 16° above the horizon.
It can be seen from anywhere north of 50° S.
It ranks no. 28 in brightness among the 99 stars of Perseus in our catalogue. To find it, start from Mirfak, the brightest: it lies about 13° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 950 years ago.
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Astronomical data for 52 Persei
- Constellation
- Perseus
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.67
- Distance
- 951.0 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 63.722° · Dec 40.484°
- Catalogue
- HIP 19811 · HD 26673
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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 200704.60
- Omega Persei4.61
- 34 Persei4.67
- Pi Persei4.68
- HIP 143824.77