Star profile
HIP 90762
What is HIP 90762
In the robust body of Hercules shines this white A-type star. Its light left the hero around 436 years ago, near 1590, when Shakespeare was beginning to write his first plays and Londons theaters were turning into machines for inventing worlds. Hotter and brighter than the Sun, it displays the pure white of young stars. Hercules, that immense yet discreet constellation, shelters it among modest stars, far from the great names of the northern sky.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 90762 lies in the northern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is July: 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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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 HIP 90762
- Constellation
- Hercules
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.76
- Distance
- 435.5 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 277.769° · Dec 16.929°
- Catalogue
- HIP 90762 · HD 170878
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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 808985.76
- HIP 833675.76
- 79 Herculis5.76
- 37 Herculis5.77
- 100 Herculis5.79