Star profile
HIP 95352
What is HIP 95352
Within the small Lyre, neighbour of bright Vega, beats a yellow G-type star 441 light-years away. Its light set out when Philip II was preparing the Invincible Armada, in 1585. Similar in colour to the Sun but already swollen into a giant, its surface hovers near 5,500 degrees and its luminosity dwarfs that of the star which lights our days, hinting at what our own Sun will one day become.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 95352 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, when it culminates around midnight.
- From London it never sets and culminates about 82° up.
- From New York it culminates about 87° above the horizon.
- From Sydney it culminates about 13° above the horizon.
It can be seen from anywhere north of 47° S.
It ranks no. 32 in brightness among the 37 stars of Lyra in our catalogue. To find it, start from Vega, the brightest: it lies about 10° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 440 years ago.
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Astronomical data for HIP 95352
- Constellation
- Lyra
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.85
- Distance
- 440.8 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 290.985° · Dec 43.388°
- Catalogue
- HIP 95352 · HD 182694
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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 918835.68
- HIP 933935.69
- Zeta 2 Lyrae5.73
- HIP 946305.88
- HIP 931045.89