Star profile
HIP 39221
What is HIP 39221
In the discreet feline of Lynx shines a yellow-white F-type star about one hundred and fifty light years away. Its light set out when the Statue of Liberty was being inaugurated in New York and European inventors were racing to refine the internal combustion engine. Slightly hotter and brighter than the Sun, it is an elder sister with a crisp, shining disk. The constellation was drawn in the seventeenth century by Hevelius to fill a patch of sky where only one with the eyes of a lynx could spot the stars.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 39221 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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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 HIP 39221
- Constellation
- Lynx
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.78
- Distance
- 150.5 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 120.337° · Dec 59.047°
- Catalogue
- HIP 39221 · HD 65301
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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