Star profile
HIP 4283
Northern polar starWhat is HIP 4283
Near the celestial north pole, where the skys rotation is barely felt, shines this white A-type star in Cepheus. Its light left the mythical king around 286 years ago, near 1740, when Linnaeus was publishing his systems to name nature and reorder the chaos of living things. Hotter and brighter than the Sun, it displays the pure white of young, energetic stars. Its circumpolar position makes it faithful: it never sets, always appearing above the north.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 4283 lies in the northern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is December: 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 4283
- Constellation
- Cepheus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.59
- Distance
- 286.1 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 13.720° · Dec 83.707°
- Catalogue
- HIP 4283 · HD 4853
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Other stars in Cepheus
Cepheus has 95 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- AlderaminAlpha Cepheus2.45
- ErraiGamma Cepheus3.21
- AlfirkBeta Cepheus3.23
- HIP 1148315.55
- HIP 1157465.56
- 4 Cepheus5.59
- HIP 1157705.60
- HIP 56265.60