Star profile
HIP 96258
What is HIP 96258
In the Swan, Cygnus, shines a yellow-white type-F star just 81 light-years away. Its light set out in the mid-twentieth century, when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was signed in Paris and the world tried to rebuild itself after the war. Slightly hotter than the Sun, its pearly hue vibrates between the wings of the celestial bird —a glow almost neighbourly on the stellar scale.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 96258 lies in the northern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is August: 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 96258
- Constellation
- Cygnus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.71
- Distance
- 81.9 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 293.582° · Dec 51.237°
- Catalogue
- HIP 96258 · HD 184960
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Other stars in Cygnus
Cygnus has 137 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- DenebAlpha Cygni1.25
- SadrGamma Cygni2.23
- AljanahEpsilon Cygni2.48
- HIP 976345.68
- 79 Cygni5.69
- HIP 998415.70
- 43 Cygni5.73
- 77 Cygni5.73