Star profile
17 Draco
Hot blue starWhat is 17 Draco
17 Draconis burns blue in the coils of the celestial dragon, a B-type star whose surface hovers around twenty thousand degrees. Its light set out 412 years ago and crossed the void in the era when Galileo first turned his small telescope toward Jupiter. Magnitude 5.07 — a sheet of kindled ice at the very edge of perception.
Where it is and when to see it
17 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 17 Draco
- Constellation
- Draco
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.07
- Distance
- 412.4 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 249.057° · Dec 52.924°
- Catalogue
- HIP 81292 · HD 150117
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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
- 35 Draco5.02
- HIP 899815.02
- 46 Draco5.03
- 27 Draco5.07
- 59 Draco5.11