Star profile
HIP 85749
What is HIP 85749
In the serpent-bearer Ophiuchus glimmers this yellow G-type star, around 360 light-years distant. Its light departed near 1665, when Newton was retreating to Woolsthorpe to escape the plague and Hooke was publishing his Micrographia. It is a G more luminous than the Sun, likely a giant that has already left a serene youth behind. Its soft but steady yellow glow arrives as an echo of the seventeenth-century scientific revolution.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 85749 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 41° above the horizon.
- From New York it culminates about 52° above the horizon.
- From Sydney it culminates about 53° above the horizon.
It can be seen from anywhere north of 87° S.
It ranks no. 61 in brightness among the 88 stars of Ophiuchus in our catalogue. To find it, start from Rasalhague, the brightest: it lies about 10° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 360 years ago.
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Astronomical data for HIP 85749
- Constellation
- Ophiuchus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.57
- Distance
- 364.1 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 262.839° · Dec 2.725°
- Catalogue
- HIP 85749 · HD 158837
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Other stars in Ophiuchus
Ophiuchus has 88 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- RasalhagueAlpha Ophiuchi2.08
- SabikEta Ophiuchi2.43
- Zeta Ophiuchi2.54
- 21 Ophiuchi5.51
- HIP 817545.55
- 24 Ophiuchi5.57
- HIP 859225.61
- HIP 836355.63