Star profile
58 Persei
Highly luminous starWhat is 58 Persei
58 Persei glows within the Hero at almost 800 light-years, a yellow giant whose warm light has been traveling since before the Renaissance. Its G class echoes the Sun, but swollen and luminous —a star that has long left its stable youth behind. When you look at it, your gaze crosses galaxies and invisible dust to reach it. One of the many embers along Perseus' eastern flank.
Where it is and when to see it
58 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: 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 58 Persei
- Constellation
- Perseus
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.25
- Distance
- 797.6 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 69.173° · Dec 41.265°
- Catalogue
- HIP 21476 · HD 29094
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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
- Mu Persei4.12
- 16 Persei4.22
- Lambda Persei4.25
- Psi Persei4.32
- Sigma Persei4.36