Star profile
HIP 83254
Highly luminous starWhat is HIP 83254
In the heroic constellation Hercules burns an orange K-type giant, an immensely luminous star whose brightness betrays its colossal distance. Its light slipped free about 3,107 years ago, when the Sea Peoples were shaking the eastern Mediterranean and the first Phoenician alphabets were sailing between ports. That light is older than most of written history, and yet it still arrives tonight.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 83254 lies in the northern 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 83254
- Constellation
- Hercules
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.69
- Distance
- 3106.7 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 255.242° · Dec 22.632°
- Catalogue
- HIP 83254 · HD 153834
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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
- 78 Herculis5.66
- HIP 846915.68
- HIP 859305.68
- HIP 871585.69
- HIP 881225.69