Star profile
HIP 87158
What is HIP 87158
On the flank of Hercules burns this yellow G-type star, a distant cousin of the Sun lying two hundred fifty-nine light years away. Its light set out around 1767, when James Watt was perfecting his steam engine in Birmingham and planting the engine of the Industrial Revolution. Warm and golden like the star that lights our days, it reminds us with its familiar tone that most yellow stars share with us an intimate history of nuclear fusion and steady light.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 87158 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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A public signature from a real person. The chosen name is a symbolic denomination within Stelvia, with no official standing or IAU recognition: the sky is not for sale and belongs to no one.
Astronomical data for HIP 87158
- Constellation
- Hercules
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.69
- Distance
- 259.3 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 267.103° · Dec 20.565°
- Catalogue
- HIP 87158 · HD 162076
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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 846915.68
- HIP 859305.68
- HIP 832545.69
- HIP 881225.69
- HIP 929375.69