Star profile
HIP 35984
What is HIP 35984
Within the Lynx, an orange K-type giant casts a warm, steady glow, cooler than the Sun yet much larger in size. Its light has been on its way for more than a thousand years: it began when Al-Sufi was compiling his «Book of Fixed Stars» and Islamic astronomy was preserving the knowledge of the ancient world. Across 1,036 light-years it has crossed the void like a slow flame arriving now, untouched, from the very night when the sky was read in another tongue.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 35984 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 35984
- Constellation
- Lynx
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.80
- Distance
- 1035.6 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 111.238° · Dec 51.887°
- Catalogue
- HIP 35984 · HD 57646
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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