Star profile
HIP 87308
What is HIP 87308
In Hercules shines an orange type-K star whose light departed in the mid-eighteenth century, when Bach composed the Goldberg Variations and Baroque music reached a perfect geometry. Cooler and larger than the Sun, its copper hue evokes the gleam of polished bronze —a warm glow that has taken more than two hundred and fifty years to reach our eyes across the void.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 87308 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 87308
- Constellation
- Hercules
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.51
- Distance
- 253.7 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 267.595° · Dec 29.322°
- Catalogue
- HIP 87308 · HD 162555
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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
- 47 Herculis5.48
- HIP 888365.49
- 74 Herculis5.51
- HIP 853855.52
- 25 Herculis5.53