Star profile
HIP 4151
What is HIP 4151
Just 61 light-years away, in Cassiopeia, glows a yellow-white F-type sun that counts —cosmically speaking— as a close neighbour. Its light reaches us from the mid-twentieth century, when humanity was taking its first steps into space and looking upward with renewed wonder. Slightly hotter and brighter than the Sun, it traces a discreet, steady pulse upon the austere W of Cassiopeia.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 4151 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 80° up.
- From New York it never sets and culminates about 70° up.
- From Sydney it never rises above the horizon.
It can be seen from anywhere north of 29° S.
It ranks no. 20 in brightness among the 93 stars of Cassiopeia in our catalogue. To find it, start from Cih, the brightest: it lies about 1° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 61 years ago.
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Astronomical data for HIP 4151
- Constellation
- Cassiopeia
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.80
- Distance
- 61.1 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 13.268° · Dec 61.124°
- Catalogue
- HIP 4151 · HD 5015
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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
- Psi Cassiopeiae4.72
- Lambda Cassiopeiae4.74
- Xi Cassiopeiae4.80
- Upsilon 1 Cassiopeiae4.83
- 1 Cassiopeiae4.84