Star profile
HIP 96016
What is HIP 96016
Vulpecula is a small, discreet constellation tucked between Cygnus and Sagitta, in one of the most populated regions of the northern Milky Way. There glows this orange star — colder than our Sun but larger — whose light took about 198 years to arrive. It set out when nineteenth-century astronomers like Bessel and Henderson were finally managing to measure the first distance to a star via parallax. Today that light seems to honour that moment when the sky stopped being out of reach.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 96016 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.
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Astronomical data for HIP 96016
- Constellation
- Vulpecula
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.89
- Distance
- 197.5 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 292.840° · Dec 26.617°
- Catalogue
- HIP 96016 · HD 184010
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Other stars in Vulpecula
Vulpecula has 44 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- AnserAlpha Vulpecula4.44
- 23 Vulpecula4.50
- 31 Vulpecula4.56
- 8 Vulpecula5.82
- HIP 955825.84
- HIP 986095.88
- HIP 1018705.91
- 20 Vulpecula5.91