Star profile
HIP 91105
What is HIP 91105
More than three hundred light years are needed for its yellow light to reach us from Scutum, the small baroque shield constellation. The photon arriving today departed when Newton was finishing his Principia and celestial mechanics was finding its equations. It belongs to type G, the same spectral family as the Sun, though more evolved and luminous.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 91105 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.
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Astronomical data for HIP 91105
- Constellation
- Scutum
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.12
- Distance
- 329.2 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 278.760° · Dec -10.977°
- Catalogue
- HIP 91105 · HD 171391
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Other stars in Scutum
Scutum has 18 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- Alpha Scutum3.85
- Beta Scutum4.22
- Zeta Scutum4.66
- Eta Scutum4.83
- Epsilon Scutum4.88
- HIP 928145.08
- HIP 922025.38
- HIP 909135.47