Star profile
HIP 88788
What is HIP 88788
In Hercules, far from the busy galactic belt, a yellow G-type star —a distant cousin of the Sun— glows at 410 light-years. Its light was emitted around 1616, when Galileo was still defending Copernicus before an ecclesiastical court. It arrives now at magnitude 5, modest to the naked eye but sharp through optics: a solar-toned flame that crossed four centuries without straying.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 88788 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 88788
- Constellation
- Hercules
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.00
- Distance
- 409.8 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 271.870° · Dec 43.462°
- Catalogue
- HIP 88788 · HD 166208
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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
- 104 Herculis4.96
- HIP 834304.97
- MarsicKappa Herculis5.00
- HIP 848335.01
- 51 Herculis5.03