Star profile
HIP 34912
Variable starWhat is HIP 34912
In Lynx, that constellation so faint only the keenest eyes —a lynx's— can pick it out, blinks a red variable M-type giant. Its light reaches us after 723 years of travel: it set out as Marco Polo was returning from Cathay and medieval kingdoms were reshaping Europe. Far cooler than the Sun yet vastly larger, it slowly oscillates in brightness, like an old heart pulsing in the darkness.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 34912 lies in the northern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is January: 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 34912
- Constellation
- Lynx
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.46
- Distance
- 723.3 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 108.347° · Dec 51.429°
- Catalogue
- HIP 34912 · HD 54895
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Other stars in Lynx
Lynx has 60 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
See all 60 stars in Lynx