Star profile
HIP 92391
Highly luminous starWhat is HIP 92391
Closing the batch, a luminous K-class orange in Scutum, 1,744 light-years away—its light set out around the year 281, during Diocletian's Roman Tetrarchy, when the Empire was reorganizing itself into four heads to keep from collapsing. A bright orange giant, too luminous to be mistaken for any ordinary dwarf, lost in a celestial region dense with star fields.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 92391 lies in the southern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is July, when it culminates around midnight.
- From London it culminates about 33° above the horizon.
- From New York it culminates about 43° above the horizon.
- From Sydney it culminates about 62° above the horizon.
It can be seen from anywhere south of 84° N.
It ranks no. 18 in brightness among the 18 stars of Scutum in our catalogue. To find it, start from Alpha Scutum, the brightest: it lies about 4° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 1,700 years ago.
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Astronomical data for HIP 92391
- Constellation
- Scutum
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.99
- Distance
- 1744.4 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 282.421° · Dec -5.913°
- Catalogue
- HIP 92391 · HD 174208
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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
- HIP 900965.71
- HIP 909915.74
- HIP 908045.77
- HIP 915325.82
- HIP 924885.82