Star profile
8 Lynx
What is 8 Lynx
8 Lyncis burns yellow in Lynx, that subtle constellation Hevelius traced in the seventeenth century as a challenge to eyesight. It is a G-type star some 170 light-years away, a spectral sister of the Sun but more luminous due to a more advanced evolutionary stage. Its light set out shortly after 1855, when the first transatlantic telegraph lines were being inaugurated and the world contracted in a single stroke.
Where it is and when to see it
8 Lynx 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 8 Lynx
- Constellation
- Lynx
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.94
- Distance
- 169.8 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 99.423° · Dec 61.481°
- Catalogue
- HIP 31676 · HD 46480
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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 353045.93
- HIP 370465.93
- HIP 371405.93
- HIP 456615.94
- HIP 448975.95