Star profile
HIP 20776
Northern polar starWhat is HIP 20776
It dwells in Cepheus, the constellation of the Ethiopian king whose stars rise toward the north celestial pole. Its yellow light, proper to G-class stars like our Sun, has been crossing space for nearly a thousand years —it set out when Castile had just been founded as an independent kingdom and Romanesque monasteries were rising across the northern peninsula. More luminous than the Sun, it turns slowly near the axis of the boreal sky, woven into that region which never sets for observers in northern Spain.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 20776 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 20776
- Constellation
- Cepheus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.42
- Distance
- 968.0 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 66.762° · Dec 80.824°
- Catalogue
- HIP 20776 · HD 26836
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Other stars in Cepheus
Cepheus has 95 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- AlderaminAlpha Cepheus2.45
- ErraiGamma Cepheus3.21
- AlfirkBeta Cepheus3.23
- HIP 1096935.27
- HIP 1095925.37
- 7 Cepheus5.42
- HIP 155475.44
- Rho 2 Cepheus5.45