Star profile
Upsilon Serpens
What is Upsilon Serpens
Upsilon Serpentis accompanies the long body of the serpent-bearer, in a constellation split into two halves held up by the giant Ophiuchus across the summer sky. It is a white A-type star some 250 light-years away, hotter and more luminous than the Sun. Its light silently marks out the sinuous line of the celestial reptile, in a tracing that breaks and resumes across the firmament.
Where it is and when to see it
Upsilon 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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Astronomical data for Upsilon Serpens
- Constellation
- Serpens
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.71
- Distance
- 250.2 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 236.822° · Dec 14.115°
- Catalogue
- HIP 77336 · HD 141187
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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
- 45 Serpens5.63
- HIP 748965.68
- 47 Serpens5.69
- HIP 904975.71
- HIP 863135.74