Star profile
45 Draco
Highly luminous starWhat is 45 Draco
45 Draconis is a luminous F-type yellow star burning more than two thousand light-years away, in the winding stretch of Draco that coils between the two Bears. Distant and bright at once, its faint glow to the eye has been travelling since the centuries of the Roman Empire and earlier still. When those photons set out, not a single line of Don Quixote had yet been written on Earth.
Where it is and when to see it
45 Draco 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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Astronomical data for 45 Draco
- Constellation
- Draco
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.77
- Distance
- 2118.2 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 278.144° · Dec 57.046°
- Catalogue
- HIP 90905 · HD 171635
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Other stars in Draco
Draco has 122 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- EltaninGamma Draco2.24
- AthebyneEta Draco2.73
- RastabanBeta Draco2.79
- Omicron Draco4.63
- AlsafiSigma Draco4.67
- Omega Draco4.77
- Fafnir4.82
- Upsilon Draco4.82