Star profile

HIP 73199

Variable star

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

What is HIP 73199

A red giant in Ursa Minor, cool and pulsating: its light wavers slowly, like a heart beating in another time. It set out toward us around 1566, when Pieter Bruegel the Elder was still painting Flemish villages in deep winter. Variable M-type stars reveal, in every flicker, the pulse of an aged, swollen body that one day will quietly shed its outer layers into the cosmic silence.

Where it is and when to see it

HIP 73199 lies in the northern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is March, when it culminates around midnight.

From London it never sets and culminates about 76° up.
From New York it never sets and culminates about 65° up.
From Sydney it never rises above the horizon.

It can be seen from anywhere north of 24° S.

It ranks no. 8 in brightness among the 25 stars of Ursa Minor in our catalogue. To find it, start from Polaris, the brightest: it lies about 25° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).

The light you see today left it about 460 years ago.

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Astronomical data for HIP 73199

Constellation: Ursa Minor
Apparent magnitude: 4.63
Distance: 459.4 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 224.396° · Dec 65.932°
Catalogue: HIP 73199 · HD 132813

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Other stars in Ursa Minor

Ursa Minor has 25 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.

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