Star profile
16 Draco
Hot blue starWhat is 16 Draco
16 Draconis is a hot blue B-type star 427 light-years away, coiled into the body of the Dragon —a vast constellation winding between the two Bears. Its bluish surface burns at temperatures far above the Sun's, the mark of a young star with a short life by stellar standards. The light arriving now left around 1599, before Galileo had pointed a telescope at the sky.
Where it is and when to see it
16 Draco 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 16 Draco
- Constellation
- Draco
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.53
- Distance
- 427.0 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 249.048° · Dec 52.900°
- Catalogue
- HIP 81290 · HD 150100
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Other stars in Draco
Draco has 122 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- EltaninGamma Draco2.24
- AthebyneEta Draco2.73
- RastabanBeta Draco2.79
- HIP 726645.48
- HIP 925495.51
- 49 Draco5.51
- HIP 841835.54
- HIP 1002615.59