Star profile
HIP 84833
Variable starWhat is HIP 84833
On the shoulder of Hercules pulses a cosmic ruby of class M whose light took 479.7 years to cross the void. It departed when Philip II still ruled an empire on which the sun never set, around 1546. It is a variable star: its brightness breathes at its own cadence, expanding and contracting, a reminder that even the distant has its own beat and pulse.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 84833 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 84833
- Constellation
- Hercules
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.01
- Distance
- 479.7 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 260.079° · Dec 18.057°
- Catalogue
- HIP 84833 · HD 157049
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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 834304.97
- MarsicKappa Herculis5.00
- HIP 887885.00
- 51 Herculis5.03
- 99 Herculis5.05