Star profile

HIP 84671

3D likeness based on its real data · class K · ~4,200 K

What is HIP 84671

Among the coils of Ophiuchus, the sky's healer, beats an orange K-type star. Its light set out nearly five hundred years ago, when Vesalius was publishing his anatomical atlas and refounding European medicine. Cooler than the Sun, its coppery glow falls with the calm of one who has watched whole libraries rise and burn. To gaze at it is to retrace an era that first learned to read the human body from within.

Where it is and when to see it

HIP 84671 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, when it culminates around midnight.

From London it culminates about 49° above the horizon.
From New York it culminates about 60° above the horizon.
From Sydney it culminates about 45° above the horizon.

It can be seen from anywhere north of 79° S.

It ranks no. 41 in brightness among the 88 stars of Ophiuchus in our catalogue. To find it, start from Rasalhague, the brightest: it lies about 4° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).

The light you see today left it about 490 years ago.

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Astronomical data for HIP 84671

Constellation: Ophiuchus
Apparent magnitude: 5.03
Distance: 492.7 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 259.654° · Dec 10.864°
Catalogue: HIP 84671 · HD 156681

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Other stars in Ophiuchus

Ophiuchus has 88 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.

See all 88 stars in Ophiuchus