Star profile
HIP 89482
Hot blue starWhat is HIP 89482
Lyra —the lyre Orpheus left hanging in the sky— holds this blue B-type ember at nearly six hundred light-years. Its light set off when the workshops of Nuremberg were printing the first modern maps of the world and Europe was discovering itself as a continent. Now, unknowingly, it lights another map: the night.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 89482 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, when it culminates around midnight.
- From London it never sets and culminates about 81° up.
- From New York it culminates about 89° above the horizon.
- From Sydney it culminates about 14° above the horizon.
It can be seen from anywhere north of 48° S.
It ranks no. 25 in brightness among the 37 stars of Lyra in our catalogue. To find it, start from Vega, the brightest: it lies about 5° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 590 years ago.
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Astronomical data for HIP 89482
- Constellation
- Lyra
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.56
- Distance
- 592.0 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 273.912° · Dec 42.159°
- Catalogue
- HIP 89482 · HD 167965
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Other stars in Lyra
Lyra has 37 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- VegaAlpha Lyrae0.03
- SulafatGamma Lyrae3.25
- SheliakBeta Lyrae3.52
- HIP 928315.46
- HIP 909235.47
- HIP 938435.53
- Delta 1 Lyrae5.58
- HIP 937185.63