Star profile
HIP 97765
Highly luminous starWhat is HIP 97765
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.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 97765 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 97765
- Constellation
- Vulpecula
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.54
- Distance
- 1690.2 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 298.007° · Dec 24.992°
- Catalogue
- HIP 97765 · HD 187982
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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
- 10 Vulpecula5.50
- 18 Vulpecula5.51
- 19 Vulpecula5.51
- HIP 979615.56
- 27 Vulpecula5.59