Star profile
59 Serpens
Variable starWhat is 59 Serpens
59 Serpentis is a yellow G-type variable in Serpens, around 470 light-years away from Earth. Its brightness wobbles gently —the same kind of subtle internal pulsations Hipparcos and Gaia have carefully catalogued in thousands of sun-like stars across the sky. It beats slowly inside a constellation split into two separate bodies, head and tail, on either side of the great healer Ophiuchus.
Where it is and when to see it
59 Serpens 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.
It opens in your browser. Free, no account, nothing to install.
The signature wall
Stelvia's sky works like a signature wall: anyone can leave their name and a message on a real star, and that signature goes up on the map for everyone to read. Signing is free.
A signature without a lock can be replaced by someone else's. The lock makes the signature permanent and lets you choose a symbolic name for the star, always shown next to the star's catalogue identifier. How the lock works
If you don't have an account yet, we'll ask for an email to confirm it's you: we send you a link and that's it, no password.
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 59 Serpens
- Constellation
- Serpens
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.20
- Distance
- 469.4 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 276.802° · Dec 0.196°
- Catalogue
- HIP 90441 · HD 169985
A symbolic commemorative gift: neither the signature nor the chosen name implies ownership of the star or recognition by the IAU.
Other stars in Serpens
Serpens has 65 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- UnukalhaiAlpha Serpens2.63
- Eta Serpens3.23
- Mu Serpens3.54
- 36 Serpens5.09
- 10 Serpens5.15
- Tau 1 Serpens5.16
- Omega Serpens5.21
- 16 Serpens5.26