Star profile
HIP 418
Variable starWhat is HIP 418
In the W traced by Cassiopeia — the mythical queen condemned to the sky for her vanity — pulses a bluish B-type star, its brightness wavering with a silent rhythm. Its 723 light-years set out at the full crystallization of the Italian Renaissance, when Giotto was beginning to paint credible human volumes and breaking from centuries of Byzantine flatness. Its flicker is the celestial echo of that slow awakening of form.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 418 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 HIP 418
- Constellation
- Cassiopeia
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.80
- Distance
- 723.3 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 1.276° · Dec 61.314°
- Catalogue
- HIP 418 · HD 225289
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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
- HIP 28765.78
- 44 Cassiopeiae5.78
- HIP 122395.80
- 38 Cassiopeiae5.82
- HIP 32995.83