Star profile
HIP 73507
What is HIP 73507
Draco coils around the celestial north pole, one of the most extensive and ancient figures of the firmament. Among its scales glows this white A-type star — young and hot — whose light took about 345 years to arrive. It set out when Galileo was finishing his last years under house arrest for defending the heliocentric model, and the sky was slowly ceasing to be a dogma to become a map instead. That white light, still loaded with nuclear youth, is a silent witness to that change of paradigm.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 73507 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: 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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A public signature from a real person. The chosen name is a symbolic denomination within Stelvia, with no official standing or IAU recognition: the sky is not for sale and belongs to no one.
Astronomical data for HIP 73507
- Constellation
- Draco
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.91
- Distance
- 344.8 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 225.363° · Dec 60.204°
- Catalogue
- HIP 73507 · HD 133388
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Other stars in Draco
Draco has 122 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- EltaninGamma Draco2.24
- AthebyneEta Draco2.73
- RastabanBeta Draco2.79
- HIP 756965.90
- HIP 971225.90
- HIP 1000175.91
- HIP 921335.91
- HIP 950385.91