Star profile
HIP 76957
Variable starWhat is HIP 76957
In the austral crown of Boötes lives a variable B-type star, blue-white and hot, whose brightness fluctuates with the inner pulse of its atmosphere. Its 299 light-years align with the founding era of Saint Petersburg under Peter the Great around 1727. Every flicker around magnitude 5.48 repeats a heartbeat emitted in the heart of the Russian Enlightenment.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 76957 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: 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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Astronomical data for HIP 76957
- Constellation
- Boötes
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.48
- Distance
- 298.7 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 235.712° · Dec 52.361°
- Catalogue
- HIP 76957 · HD 140728
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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
- 18 Boötis5.41
- HIP 755725.46
- HIP 725825.47
- HIP 736345.52
- 14 Boötis5.53