Star profile
HIP 97598
Cool red starWhat is HIP 97598
In the small southern constellation of Telescopium, a red giant burns with the coppery light of exhausted stars. Its journey toward us began around the year 700, at the height of the Umayyad caliphate's expansion across the Mediterranean. Much larger and far cooler than the Sun, it has already consumed nearly all its nuclear fuel and exhales slow envelopes into the void.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 97598 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 97598
- Constellation
- Telescopium
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.91
- Distance
- 1331.4 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 297.559° · Dec -47.557°
- Catalogue
- HIP 97598 · HD 187086
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Other stars in Telescopium
Telescopium has 27 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- Alpha Telescopium3.49
- Zeta Telescopium4.10
- Epsilon Telescopium4.52
- HIP 978165.76
- HIP 923675.80
- HIP 914615.84
- HIP 936245.93
- HIP 938625.95