Star profile
HIP 87074
Hot blue starWhat is HIP 87074
In Serpens burns a blue B-type star, far hotter and more massive than the Sun. Its light took roughly 600 years to cross the void: it set out in the mid-15th century, when Gutenberg was printing the Bible with movable type and Constantinople fell to the Ottomans, redrawing the map of the Mediterranean. A blue flame, brief and fierce, crosses the 21st century from high in the summer sky.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 87074 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 87074
- Constellation
- Serpens
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.93
- Distance
- 599.6 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 266.903° · Dec -14.726°
- Catalogue
- HIP 87074 · HD 161701
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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
- Tau 5 Serpens5.93
- HIP 791205.93
- HIP 791375.93
- HIP 878135.93
- 61 Serpens5.93