Star profile
HIP 51384
Northern polar starWhat is HIP 51384
Near the celestial north pole, in Camelopardalis, beats a yellow-white F-type star about 133 light-years away. Its light set out around 1893, the year of the Chicago World's Fair, when Tesla and Edison waged their current wars under electric lamps. It barely moves in the northern sky: turning slowly around the invisible axis of the world.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 51384 lies in the northern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is January: 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 51384
- Constellation
- Camelopardalis
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.52
- Distance
- 132.5 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 157.426° · Dec 84.252°
- Catalogue
- HIP 51384 · HD 89571
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Other stars in Camelopardalis
Camelopardalis has 75 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- Beta Camelopardalis4.03
- HIP 162284.21
- Alpha Camelopardalis4.26
- HIP 324395.44
- HIP 226265.47
- 5 Camelopardalis5.52
- HIP 407935.55
- HIP 268825.62