Star profile
HIP 82028
Cool red starWhat is HIP 82028
On the starry shoulder of Hercules shines a red M-class giant, cool and dilated, lying more than four hundred and fifty light-years away. The ruby light that now describes it set out at the height of the Renaissance, when Galileo was aiming his spyglass at the Jovian moons and European astronomy was beginning to forget Ptolemy's sky. Its deep red — closer to embers than to flame — betrays a star far advanced in its evolution, much wider than the Sun yet much colder.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 82028 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 82028
- Constellation
- Hercules
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.60
- Distance
- 453.7 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 251.344° · Dec 15.745°
- Catalogue
- HIP 82028 · HD 151203
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Other stars in Hercules
Hercules has 136 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- KornephorosBeta Herculis2.78
- RasalgethiAlpha 1 Herculis2.78
- Zeta Herculis2.81
- HIP 836925.56
- 83 Herculis5.56
- HIP 890085.57
- HIP 809535.61
- HIP 870445.61