Star profile
HIP 20982
Northern polar starWhat is HIP 20982
Near the northern celestial pole keeps watch a yellow star whose light crossed three hundred and seven years before arriving. It set out as Peter the Great was founding Saint Petersburg upon the frozen marsh, opening Russia to the Baltic. Its temperate surface, akin to the Sun’s, gives it a golden, mature tone: an evolved giant grown after consuming its central hydrogen. It belongs to the circumpolar court no northern observer ever sees set —always present, always a little cooler than the blue stars around it.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 20982 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 20982
- Constellation
- Cepheus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.47
- Distance
- 307.4 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 67.502° · Dec 83.340°
- Catalogue
- HIP 20982 · HD 26659
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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 155475.44
- Rho 2 Cepheus5.45
- HIP 1107255.47
- HIP 144175.49
- HIP 1052595.51