Star profile
9 Vulpecula
Hot blue starWhat is 9 Vulpecula
9 Vulpeculae burns some 553 light-years away as a swollen blue B-class giant, hundreds of times more luminous than the Sun. It inhabits the small constellation of the Fox, sketched by Hevelius in the 17th century between Cygnus and Sagitta. Its light, white with a pale blue tinge, crosses more than five centuries of space before it ever reaches an eye.
Where it is and when to see it
9 Vulpecula 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 culminates about 58° above the horizon.
- From New York it culminates about 69° above the horizon.
- From Sydney it culminates about 36° above the horizon.
It can be seen from anywhere north of 70° S.
It ranks no. 11 in brightness among the 44 stars of Vulpecula in our catalogue. To find it, start from Anser, the brightest: it lies about 5° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 550 years ago.
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Astronomical data for 9 Vulpecula
- Constellation
- Vulpecula
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.00
- Distance
- 552.9 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 293.645° · Dec 19.773°
- Catalogue
- HIP 96275 · HD 184606
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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
- 29 Vulpecula4.81
- 12 Vulpecula4.90
- 30 Vulpecula4.92
- 32 Vulpecula5.03
- 28 Vulpecula5.06