Star profile
HIP 2377
Hot blue starWhat is HIP 2377
In the throne of Cassiopeia —arrogant queen chained to the sky— burns a blue beacon 769 light-years away. Its light set out around 1257, when a colossal volcano in Indonesia, Samalas, darkened the climate of half the world for years. Hot B-types are brief furnaces: they burn ultraviolet and tend to gather in young clusters that light up the arms of the Galaxy.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 2377 lies in the northern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is November: 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 2377
- Constellation
- Cassiopeia
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.94
- Distance
- 769.3 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 7.583° · Dec 59.978°
- Catalogue
- HIP 2377 · HD 2626
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Other stars in Cassiopeia
Cassiopeia has 93 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- CihGamma Cassiopeiae2.15
- SchedarAlpha Cassiopeiae2.24
- CaphBeta Cassiopeiae2.28
- HIP 49625.92
- HIP 26115.93
- HIP 133675.94
- HIP 128215.95
- HIP 45725.97