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hip-83601
Variable starIts story
In Ophiuchus, the serpent-bearer, shines a yellow-white star about 67 light-years away —practically a neighbour in cosmic terms. Its light set out around 1959, when a probe first photographed the far side of the Moon and humanity discovered its other half. A bit hotter than the Sun and slightly variable, it pulses with subtleties that only patient astronomers notice.
- Constellation
- Ophiuchus
- Apparent magnitude
- 6.00
- Distance
- 67.4 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 256.320° · Dec 0.703°
- Catalogue
- HIP 83601 · HD 154417
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