Star profile
Psi Serpens
Nearby starWhat is Psi Serpens
Psi Serpentis is one of the nearest suns in the Serpent: a yellow G-type star just 48 light-years away, a true spectral twin of the Sun. If a world like Earth circled it, its night sky would show our Sun as an anonymous star among the many threading the Milky Way. Its proximity and its spectral kinship with our own star make it a favoured target for the great catalogues that hunt for planets around solar analogues and search for the faint chemical signatures of habitability.
Where it is and when to see it
Psi Serpens 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: 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 Psi Serpens
- Constellation
- Serpens
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.86
- Distance
- 47.8 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 236.008° · Dec 2.515°
- Catalogue
- HIP 77052 · HD 140538
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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 784425.82
- HIP 920275.82
- HIP 886705.84
- HIP 749015.88
- HIP 743865.90