Star profile
HIP 87777
What is HIP 87777
In the kneeling Hercules shines this orange K-type giant, whose light took four hundred thirty-five years to cross the void. It departed around the sixteenth century, when in 1591 Shakespeare was staging his first plays in London and a new theatrical language was being born. Cooler than the Sun but immeasurably larger, it unfolds a coppery glow in a region of the sky strewn with deep-sky treasures, part of the steady landscape of northern celestial mythology.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 87777 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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Astronomical data for HIP 87777
- Constellation
- Hercules
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.62
- Distance
- 434.9 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 268.962° · Dec 22.464°
- Catalogue
- HIP 87777 · HD 163547
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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 809535.61
- HIP 870445.61
- 108 Herculis5.61
- HIP 911395.62
- 28 Herculis5.63