Star profile

HIP 79195

3D likeness based on its real data · class K · ~4,200 K

What is HIP 79195

An orange K-type star shines quietly within Serpens, cooler than the Sun and bearing a warm, amber-like hue. Its light set out almost five centuries ago, when Copernicus published «De revolutionibus» and overturned Earth s place in the cosmos. After 479 light-years, that warm gleam arrives as a belated nod to the first man who dared to displace us from the centre and redraw the map of the sky.

Where it is and when to see it

HIP 79195 lies in the southern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is May, when it culminates around midnight.

From London it culminates about 35° above the horizon.
From New York it culminates about 46° above the horizon.
From Sydney it culminates about 60° above the horizon.

It can be seen from anywhere south of 87° N.

It ranks no. 32 in brightness among the 65 stars of Serpens in our catalogue. To find it, start from Unukalhai, the brightest: it lies about 12° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).

The light you see today left it about 480 years ago.

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Astronomical data for HIP 79195

Constellation: Serpens
Apparent magnitude: 5.39
Distance: 479.0 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 242.460° · Dec -3.467°
Catalogue: HIP 79195 · HD 145206

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Other stars in Serpens

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