Star profile
HIP 3951
What is HIP 3951
In Cassiopeia rests a white A-type star, with serene radiance and a temperature far above the Sun's. Its light took some 640 years to traverse space: it departed around 1386, when Geoffrey Chaucer was beginning his «Canterbury Tales» and Europe was slowly emerging from the Black Death. That brilliance has travelled through the entire modern era to outline today the silhouette of the celestial queen.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 3951 lies in the northern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is November, when it culminates around midnight.
- From London it never sets and culminates about 77° up.
- From New York it never sets and culminates about 66° up.
- From Sydney it never rises above the horizon.
It can be seen from anywhere north of 26° S.
It ranks no. 42 in brightness among the 93 stars of Cassiopeia in our catalogue. To find it, start from Cih, the brightest: it lies about 4° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 640 years ago.
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Astronomical data for HIP 3951
- Constellation
- Cassiopeia
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.35
- Distance
- 639.6 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 12.682° · Dec 64.248°
- Catalogue
- HIP 3951 · HD 4775
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Other stars in Cassiopeia
Cassiopeia has 93 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- CihGamma Cassiopeiae2.15
- SchedarAlpha Cassiopeiae2.24
- CaphBeta Cassiopeiae2.28
- 40 Cassiopeiae5.28
- HIP 93125.29
- 31 Cassiopeiae5.32
- 12 Cassiopeiae5.38
- HIP 35445.41