Star profile
HIP 74896
What is HIP 74896
In the Serpent, the only constellation split in two by the Serpent-Bearer, shines a yellow star, a distant cousin of the Sun. Its light began its journey 357 years ago, when Vermeer was painting rooms flooded with light in Delft and the Royal Society of London was being founded. Similar in temperature to the Sun, it belongs to that quiet family of stars that, in some other corner of the galaxy, someone might call sun.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 74896 lies in the northern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is May, 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 69° S.
It ranks no. 42 in brightness among the 65 stars of Serpens in our catalogue. To find it, start from Unukalhai, the brightest: it lies about 15° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 360 years ago.
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Astronomical data for HIP 74896
- Constellation
- Serpens
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.68
- Distance
- 356.5 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 229.602° · Dec 20.573°
- Catalogue
- HIP 74896 · HD 136138
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Other stars in Serpens
Serpens has 65 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- UnukalhaiAlpha Serpens2.63
- Eta Serpens3.23
- Mu Serpens3.54
- HIP 771635.57
- 4 Serpens5.62
- 45 Serpens5.63
- 47 Serpens5.69
- Upsilon Serpens5.71