Star profile
HIP 2854
Hot blue starWhat is HIP 2854
In Cassiopeia — the queen seated on her celestial throne — gleams a blue B-type star, far hotter and more massive than the Sun. Its light took roughly 537 years to cross the void: it set out as the printing press was being born in Europe and Machiavelli was writing «The Prince». That bluish spark, brief and fierce on stellar scales, traces a cold accent across the constellation's cardinal silhouette.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 2854 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: 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 2854
- Constellation
- Cassiopeia
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.08
- Distance
- 536.5 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 9.035° · Dec 54.168°
- Catalogue
- HIP 2854 · HD 3240
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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
- Phi Cassiopeiae4.95
- 4 Cassiopeiae4.96
- Omega Cassiopeiae4.97
- HIP 1135615.10
- HIP 122735.17