Star profile
HIP 9572
What is HIP 9572
Cetus, the whale, harbors countless quiet lights —among them this orange giant 359 light-years away. Its light departed around 1667, when Hooke published Micrographia and revealed to the world, for the first time, the cells of a sliver of cork seen under a microscope. While science was discovering the infinitely small, this star was already sending its greeting from the infinitely large.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 9572 lies in the southern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is October, when it culminates around midnight.
- From London it culminates about 23° above the horizon.
- From New York it culminates about 34° above the horizon.
- From Sydney it culminates about 71° above the horizon.
It can be seen from anywhere south of 75° N.
It ranks no. 93 in brightness among the 111 stars of Cetus in our catalogue. To find it, start from Diphda, the brightest: it lies about 19° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 360 years ago.
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Astronomical data for HIP 9572
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.87
- Distance
- 358.5 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 30.744° · Dec -15.306°
- Catalogue
- HIP 9572 · HD 12583
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Other stars in Cetus
Cetus has 111 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- DiphdaBeta Ceti2.04
- MenkarAlpha Ceti2.54
- Eta Ceti3.46
- HIP 8735.84
- HIP 103265.86
- 42 Ceti5.87
- HIP 113485.88
- HIP 43465.88