Star profile
HIP 78649
What is HIP 78649
The Northern Crown, that half-circle of gems in the region of Boötes, guards a white A-type star 655 light-years away. Its light departed around 1371, in the thick of the Hundred Years’ War between France and England. The sharpness of its 9,000-degree surface arrives today as a spark of magnitude 5.79: a luminous memory of the late Middle Ages suspended in the diadem.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 78649 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 HIP 78649
- Constellation
- Corona Borealis
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.79
- Distance
- 655.0 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 240.831° · Dec 36.632°
- Catalogue
- HIP 78649 · HD 144208
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Other stars in Corona Borealis
Corona Borealis has 26 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- AlpheccaAlpha Coronae Borealis2.22
- NusakanBeta Coronae Borealis3.66
- Gamma Coronae Borealis3.81
- Pi Coronae Borealis5.57
- HIP 782765.61
- HIP 793585.62
- Upsilon Coronae Borealis5.80
- HIP 774425.89