Star profile
HIP 97534
What is HIP 97534
In the southern constellation of Pavo shines a white star about 142 light-years away. Its light began its journey around 1884, the year the Greenwich meridian was adopted as the world's reference for time. Its surface, far hotter than the Sun's, radiates a clean, almost glacial whiteness —like the edge of a freshly polished crystal.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 97534 lies in the southern 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 97534
- Constellation
- Pavo
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.39
- Distance
- 142.3 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 297.355° · Dec -72.503°
- Catalogue
- HIP 97534 · HD 186219
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Other stars in Pavo
Pavo has 44 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- PeacockAlpha Pavonis1.94
- Beta Pavonis3.42
- Delta Pavonis3.55
- HIP 981745.24
- HIP 941505.31
- Mu 2 Pavonis5.32
- Sigma Pavonis5.41
- HIP 976465.41