Star profile
HIP 24902
What is HIP 24902
In Auriga, the old charioteer of the winter sky, shines an A-type white star. Its light set out almost two hundred and eighty years ago, around the mid-eighteenth century, when the Enlightenment was trying to classify the world and the first encyclopaedias were being born. Hotter than the Sun, it unfolds that crisp white glow that no cooler body can imitate. It shines discreetly in a constellation dominated by luminous Capella, like a smaller yet essential link in the wheel of the celestial chariot that rolls each winter above the horizon.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 24902 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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A public signature from a real person. The chosen name is a symbolic denomination within Stelvia, with no official standing or IAU recognition: the sky is not for sale and belongs to no one.
Astronomical data for HIP 24902
- Constellation
- Auriga
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.46
- Distance
- 277.1 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 80.061° · Dec 41.086°
- Catalogue
- HIP 24902 · HD 34557
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Other stars in Auriga
Auriga has 76 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- CapellaAlpha Aurigae0.08
- HYG 1183600.96
- MenkalinanBeta Aurigae1.90
- HIP 247995.38
- 26 Aurigae5.40
- HIP 315795.40
- Omicron Aurigae5.46
- HIP 251435.54