Star profile

HIP 6492

3D likeness based on its real data · class K · ~4,200 K

What is HIP 6492

Within Pisces glows an orange K-type giant, cooler than the Sun yet noticeably larger in size. Its light has been on the road for a thousand years: it departed when Avicenna was writing the «Canon of Medicine» and Islamic scholarship was bridging Greece with medieval Europe. After a thousand light-years, that warm, constant tone arrives tonight as a silent echo of a millennium in which science, far from dying, simply changed hands so as never to be lost.

Where it is and when to see it

HIP 6492 lies in the northern 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 59° above the horizon.
From New York it culminates about 70° above the horizon.
From Sydney it culminates about 36° above the horizon.

It can be seen from anywhere north of 70° S.

It ranks no. 77 in brightness among the 79 stars of Pisces in our catalogue. To find it, start from Alpherg, the brightest: it lies about 5° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).

The light you see today left it about 1,000 years ago.

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Astronomical data for HIP 6492

Constellation: Pisces
Apparent magnitude: 5.97
Distance: 1000.6 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 20.854° · Dec 20.469°
Catalogue: HIP 6492 · HD 8388

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Other stars in Pisces

Pisces has 79 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.

See all 79 stars in Pisces