Star profile
HIP 86266
What is HIP 86266
The Serpent, that singular constellation split in two by Ophiuchus, hides a yellow-white F-type star 1546 light-years away. Its light set out in the fifth century, when Visigothic peoples were crossing Roman Hispania and settling on the Peninsula. That a point at magnitude 5.94 offers the night a contemporary echo of the founding of the Gothic kingdoms sums up neatly the temporal scale of the deep sky.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 86266 lies in the southern 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 86266
- Constellation
- Serpens
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.94
- Distance
- 1546.0 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 264.401° · Dec -15.571°
- Catalogue
- HIP 86266 · HD 159877
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Other stars in Serpens
Serpens has 65 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- UnukalhaiAlpha Serpens2.63
- Eta Serpens3.23
- Mu Serpens3.54
- HIP 870745.93
- HIP 878135.93
- 61 Serpens5.93
- HIP 774125.98
- HIP 895875.99