Star profile
HIP 76519
Cool red starWhat is HIP 76519
In the Little Bear, the small bear that guards the celestial north pole, beats a red M-type giant, cool and swollen like a cosmic ember. Its light takes around 767 years to arrive: what we see today departed about 1259, when Alfonso X the Wise was gathering his astronomers in Toledo to compose the Alfonsine Tables, Castile's first major attempt to measure the heavens with precision. A medieval light reaching modern eyes.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 76519 lies in the northern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is February, when it culminates around midnight.
- From London it never sets and culminates about 72° up.
- From New York it never sets and culminates about 61° up.
- From Sydney it never rises above the horizon.
It can be seen from anywhere north of 21° S.
It ranks no. 19 in brightness among the 25 stars of Ursa Minor in our catalogue. To find it, start from Polaris, the brightest: it lies about 21° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 770 years ago.
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Astronomical data for HIP 76519
- Constellation
- Ursa Minor
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.65
- Distance
- 767.5 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 234.413° · Dec 69.283°
- Catalogue
- HIP 76519 · HD 140227
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Other stars in Ursa Minor
Ursa Minor has 25 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- PolarisAlpha Ursae Minoris1.97
- KochabBeta Ursae Minoris2.07
- PherkadGamma Ursae Minoris3.00
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