Star profile
HIP 73087
What is HIP 73087
In Boötes, eternal guardian of the northern sky, shines a white A-type star, hotter and more luminous than the Sun. Its light began the journey about 597 years ago, when Brunelleschi was completing the dome of Florence and geometric perspective was reordering the European gaze. It arrives now with that clean, almost architectural brightness proper to white stars.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 73087 lies in the northern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is April, when it culminates around midnight.
- From London it culminates about 53° above the horizon.
- From New York it culminates about 64° above the horizon.
- From Sydney it culminates about 42° above the horizon.
It can be seen from anywhere north of 76° S.
It ranks no. 78 in brightness among the 88 stars of Boötes in our catalogue. To find it, start from Arcturus, the brightest: it lies about 11° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 600 years ago.
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Astronomical data for HIP 73087
- Constellation
- Boötes
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.90
- Distance
- 597.4 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 224.055° · Dec 14.446°
- Catalogue
- HIP 73087 · HD 131951
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Other stars in Boötes
Boötes has 88 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- ArcturusAlpha Boötis-0.05
- IzarEpsilon Boötis2.35
- MuphridEta Boötis2.68
- HIP 765945.84
- HIP 725675.86
- HIP 715715.90
- 26 Boötis5.91
- HIP 717595.93