Star profile
29 Lynx
What is 29 Lynx
29 Lyncis lights up Lynx, that strip of northern sky Hevelius stitched together in the seventeenth century to fill a silent gap between more famous neighbouring constellations. It is a white A-type star 300 light-years away from Earth, bright by Lynx standards —where almost everything is watched in patient, attentive silence. The constellation has no clear figure; its stars must instead be read one by one.
Where it is and when to see it
29 Lynx 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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The signature wall
Stelvia's sky works like a signature wall: anyone can leave their name and a message on a real star, and that signature goes up on the map for everyone to read. Signing is free.
A signature without a lock can be replaced by someone else's. The lock makes the signature permanent and lets you choose a symbolic name for the star, always shown next to the star's catalogue identifier. How the lock works
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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 29 Lynx
- Constellation
- Lynx
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.63
- Distance
- 299.5 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 124.460° · Dec 59.571°
- Catalogue
- HIP 40646 · HD 68930
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Other stars in Lynx
Lynx has 60 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- Alpha Lynx3.14
- 38 Lynx3.82
- HIP 442483.96
- HIP 351365.54
- HIP 374415.58
- 43 Lynx5.61
- HIP 370235.66
- HIP 363485.70