Star profile
HIP 30651
Variable starWhat is HIP 30651
Discreet in Lynx, that constellation invented to fill an almost empty patch of sky, pulses a white class A variable. Its brightness is not steady: it rises and falls with a breath of its own. The light arriving now left 244 years ago, when the United States was signing its declaration of independence and a new world was rising on the other side of the Atlantic.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 30651 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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Astronomical data for HIP 30651
- Constellation
- Lynx
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.53
- Distance
- 244.5 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 96.608° · Dec 56.285°
- Catalogue
- HIP 30651 · HD 44691
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Other stars in Lynx
Lynx has 60 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- Alpha Lynx3.14
- 38 Lynx3.82
- HIP 442483.96
- HIP 349125.46
- 26 Lynx5.47
- HIP 411525.52
- HIP 326095.54
- HIP 351365.54