Star profile
HIP 96977
Highly luminous starWhat is HIP 96977
Along the long body of the Swan shines a rare and extraordinarily luminous white star, 1,965 light-years away. Its light set out around the year 60, when Rome lived under the reign of Nero and the Empire stretched across the Mediterranean basin. Far hotter and thousands of times brighter than the Sun, it is a distant white beacon tangled within the feathers of the celestial bird.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 96977 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 96977
- Constellation
- Cygnus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.93
- Distance
- 1965.1 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 295.686° · Dec 32.427°
- Catalogue
- HIP 96977 · HD 186377
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