Star profile
HIP 92312
What is HIP 92312
Upon the mighty arm of Hercules gleams a white A-type star. Its light departed two hundred and eighty-six years ago, when Linnaeus was publishing the «Systema Naturae» and nature was being ordered into genera and species. Hotter than the Sun, it pours a firm, clean white, like a scalpel of light upon an open herbarium. To see it is to lean over the age when humankind dared to give a name, one by one, to all that lives.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 92312 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 92312
- Constellation
- Hercules
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.89
- Distance
- 285.9 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 282.222° · Dec 19.329°
- Catalogue
- HIP 92312 · HD 174262
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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 906375.87
- HIP 909155.88
- HIP 793575.89
- HIP 823505.91
- HIP 834785.91