Star profile
HIP 94630
Cool red starWhat is HIP 94630
In Lyra, that small constellation of the boreal summer associated with Orpheus, glows a red star whose light set out twelve hundred and sixty-nine years ago, when Charlemagne was still a young king of the Franks. It is a very cool giant, with a surface of barely three thousand five hundred degrees, that reddish temperature recalling iron at dusk. Despite this relative chill, its enormous size and luminosity turn it into a discreet beacon. Its garnet tone brings warmth to a constellation dominated by white and blue stars.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 94630 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.
It opens in your browser. Free, no account, nothing to install.
The signature wall
Stelvia's sky works like a signature wall: anyone can leave their name and a message on a real star, and that signature goes up on the map for everyone to read. Signing is free.
A signature without a lock can be replaced by someone else's. The lock makes the signature permanent and lets you choose a symbolic name for the star, always shown next to the star's catalogue identifier. How the lock works
If you don't have an account yet, we'll ask for an email to confirm it's you: we send you a link and that's it, no password.
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 94630
- Constellation
- Lyra
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.88
- Distance
- 1269.3 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 288.854° · Dec 30.526°
- Catalogue
- HIP 94630 · HD 180450
A symbolic commemorative gift: neither the signature nor the chosen name implies ownership of the star or recognition by the IAU.
Other stars in Lyra
Lyra has 37 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- VegaAlpha Lyrae0.03
- SulafatGamma Lyrae3.25
- SheliakBeta Lyrae3.52
- HIP 933935.69
- Zeta 2 Lyrae5.73
- HIP 953525.85
- HIP 931045.89
- Nu 1 Lyrae5.93