Star profile
57 Piscium
Variable starWhat is 57 Piscium
57 Piscium is a red M-type giant, an aged star whose brightness varies faintly over time, like a slow heartbeat. Its light crossed nearly seven hundred and seventy light-years to reach us, setting off when the Byzantine Empire was still standing. In the autumn sky, Pisces unfolds a winding ribbon of faint stars, and within that figure rests this cosmic ember moving toward the end of its stellar life.
Where it is and when to see it
57 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 57 Piscium
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.36
- Distance
- 776.7 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 11.637° · Dec 15.476°
- Catalogue
- HIP 3632 · HD 4408
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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
- Psi 1 Piscium5.33
- Rho Piscium5.35
- 55 Piscium5.36
- 41 Piscium5.38
- 52 Piscium5.38