Star profile
53 Piscium
Variable starWhat is 53 Piscium
53 Piscium flickers faintly across the broad field of the Fishes, a hot blue B-type star whose light has been travelling more than a thousand years before reaching us. It set out toward the close of the first millennium, when the Iberian kingdoms lived along their medieval frontier. Its subtle variability matches that of massive stars pulsing at the rhythm of their own restless atmospheres.
Where it is and when to see it
53 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: 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 53 Piscium
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.89
- Distance
- 1038.9 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 9.197° · Dec 15.232°
- Catalogue
- HIP 2903 · HD 3379
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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
- HIP 1136225.85
- 54 Piscium5.88
- HIP 1169185.89
- 112 Piscium5.89
- HIP 73595.90