Star profile
51 Piscium
Hot blue starWhat is 51 Piscium
51 Piscium sinks into the long chain of the Fishes, a blue-white B-type star about 264 light-years away. Its light left around 1762, when James Cook was sailing the South Seas mapping islands for the British crown. Hot, young, and cool-toned to the eye, stars like this one bring a nervous shine to a usually dim constellation.
Where it is and when to see it
51 Piscium lies in the northern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is October, when it culminates around midnight.
- From London it culminates about 45° above the horizon.
- From New York it culminates about 56° above the horizon.
- From Sydney it culminates about 49° above the horizon.
It can be seen from anywhere north of 83° S.
It ranks no. 56 in brightness among the 79 stars of Pisces in our catalogue. To find it, start from Alpherg, the brightest: it lies about 17° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 260 years ago.
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Astronomical data for 51 Piscium
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.69
- Distance
- 264.1 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 8.099° · Dec 6.955°
- Catalogue
- HIP 2548 · HD 2913
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Other stars in Pisces
Pisces has 79 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- AlphergEta Piscium3.62
- Gamma Piscium3.70
- AlreschaAlpha Piscium3.82
- 22 Piscium5.59
- 72 Piscium5.64
- 16 Piscium5.68
- 32 Piscium5.70
- 96 G. Psc5.74