Star profile
60 Serpens
What is 60 Serpens
60 Serpentis burns in Serpens, the only constellation split into two halves —the Head and the Tail— by the intervening figure of Ophiuchus, the serpent bearer. It is an orange K-type giant some 230 light-years away, well past its nuclear youth, with a warmer hue and a radius far greater than the Sun's. Its light reaches us after two long centuries of silent travel across the summer sky.
Where it is and when to see it
60 Serpens lies in the southern 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 60 Serpens
- Constellation
- Serpens
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.38
- Distance
- 229.7 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 277.421° · Dec -1.985°
- Catalogue
- HIP 90642 · HD 170474
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
- 3 Serpens5.32
- Chi Serpens5.34
- 6 Serpens5.35
- 25 Serpens5.39
- HIP 791955.39