Star profile
28 Ceti
What is 28 Ceti
28 Ceti glides along the body of the sky's great whale, a vast and quiet constellation stretching near the equatorial horizon. It is a white A-type star with a surface markedly hotter than the Sun's, and its light crosses nearly five hundred and ninety years before touching Earth. When those photons set out, the late Middle Ages still set the rhythm of life across Europe.
Where it is and when to see it
28 Ceti lies in the southern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is October, when it culminates around midnight.
- From London it culminates about 29° above the horizon.
- From New York it culminates about 39° above the horizon.
- From Sydney it culminates about 66° above the horizon.
It can be seen from anywhere south of 80° N.
It ranks no. 61 in brightness among the 111 stars of Cetus in our catalogue. To find it, start from Diphda, the brightest: it lies about 10° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 590 years ago.
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Astronomical data for 28 Ceti
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.58
- Distance
- 589.9 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 16.521° · Dec -9.839°
- Catalogue
- HIP 5164 · HD 6530
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Other stars in Cetus
Cetus has 111 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- DiphdaBeta Ceti2.04
- MenkarAlpha Ceti2.54
- Eta Ceti3.46
- HIP 149155.55
- HIP 29415.57
- HIP 37415.57
- HIP 76795.58
- HIP 38495.59