Star profile
HIP 4440
Hot blue starWhat is HIP 4440
In the unmistakable zigzag of Cassiopeia, some 538 light years away, a blue B-type star shines with all the vigour of stellar youth. Its light departed around 1488, only a few years before Columbus's first voyage to the American continent and the fall of Granada. Far hotter than the Sun, it casts that bluish-white blaze that betrays the extreme temperatures at its surface. The mythical queen, chained into the celestial W, offers one of her slopes as a stage, granting it company among her better-known stars.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 4440 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: 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 4440
- Constellation
- Cassiopeia
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.56
- Distance
- 538.3 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 14.196° · Dec 60.363°
- Catalogue
- HIP 4440 · HD 5408
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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 1172995.55
- HIP 76175.55
- HIP 1153955.56
- HIP 55665.56
- HIP 1146225.57