Star profile
HIP 20860
Variable starWhat is HIP 20860
In the king Cepheus, some 757 light-years away, pulses this variable blue-white star of type B. Its light set out around 1268, when Gothic cathedrals were rising stone by stone and light began pouring in through their rose windows. Far hotter and more massive than the Sun, its brightness breathes with subtlety, reminding us that even the steadiest flames in the sky know an inner pulse of their own.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 20860 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 20860
- Constellation
- Cepheus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.51
- Distance
- 756.8 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 67.055° · Dec 83.808°
- Catalogue
- HIP 20860 · HD 26356
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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 209825.47
- HIP 144175.49
- HIP 1052595.51
- HIP 1094745.52
- 26 Cepheus5.52