Star profile
HIP 81724
What is HIP 81724
Suspended in Ophiuchus, this yellow class-G star echoes the colour of our Sun, yet beats much farther away —its glow has been travelling 412 years before reaching us. When it released the light we see today, Galileo was refining his telescope in Padua and rewriting celestial physics. Older and likely more luminous than the star that warms us, it offers a glimpse of the Sun's distant future.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 81724 lies in the southern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is June: 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 81724
- Constellation
- Ophiuchus
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.91
- Distance
- 412.4 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 250.393° · Dec -17.742°
- Catalogue
- HIP 81724 · HD 150416
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Other stars in Ophiuchus
Ophiuchus has 88 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- RasalhagueAlpha Ophiuchi2.08
- SabikEta Ophiuchi2.43
- Zeta Ophiuchi2.54
- 30 Ophiuchi4.82
- 74 Ophiuchi4.85
- 58 Ophiuchi4.86
- HIP 846715.03
- Guniibuu B5.07