Star profile
HIP 4572
What is HIP 4572
Cassiopeia — that unmistakable double-v silhouette — also harbours this white A-type star, young and hot, whose light took about 350 years to arrive. It set out when seventeenth-century astronomers were patiently drawing the first detailed maps of the Moon — Riccioli, Hevelius — and naming its seas and craters with Latin words. Today this white light reaches us after exactly that span, a reminder that while humans map what is near, starlight goes on quietly making its own invisible journey.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 4572 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 4572
- Constellation
- Cassiopeia
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.97
- Distance
- 350.4 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 14.629° · Dec 66.352°
- Catalogue
- HIP 4572 · HD 5550
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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 133675.94
- HIP 23775.94
- HIP 128215.95
- HIP 5185.98
- HIP 49985.99