Star profile
HIP 93996
Variable starWhat is HIP 93996
Nearly 1,300 light-years away, in the dense heart of Sagittarius, this blue-white variable pulses on. Its light kindled around the eighth century, during the expansion of the Umayyad caliphate and Charlemagne s empire, when Arab astronomers were translating Ptolemy. It is a hot B-class star —the kind that burns briefly and leaves a mark— still vibrating in the night-time eye.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 93996 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: 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 93996
- Constellation
- Sagittarius
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.56
- Distance
- 1294.4 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 287.070° · Dec -19.290°
- Catalogue
- HIP 93996 · HD 178175
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Other stars in Sagittarius
Sagittarius has 117 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
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- HIP 901245.52
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- 50 Sagittarii5.57
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