No star has been selected yet.
You haven't picked a star yet
Back to the selector
Your star
hip-97765
Highly luminous starIts story
In the small constellation of Vulpecula gleams a luminous white giant some 1,690 light-years away. The light reaching us today set out around the year 336, as Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire and Constantinople was born as a second Rome. Dozens or hundreds of times brighter than the Sun, it sustains its glow from a humble corner of the Milky Way.
- Constellation
- Vulpecula
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.54
- Distance
- 1690.2 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 298.007° · Dec 24.992°
- Catalogue
- HIP 97765 · HD 187982
Take your star to the gift that suits you best.
Choose a tierSymbolic commemorative gift — no ownership, no IAU recognition.