Star profile
HIP 97816
What is HIP 97816
The southern Telescope, a constellation traced in the eighteenth century to honour the new instrument of science, preserves a yellow star whose light crossed five hundred and sixty-two years before arriving. It set out while Ottoman armies besieged Constantinople and Europe was entering the Renaissance. It shares the warm hue of the Sun, but its size and luminosity make it an elder sister, an evolved giant whose brilliance has grown with age. Small to the eye, it carries all the serene dignity of mature stars.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 97816 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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A public signature from a real person. The chosen name is a symbolic denomination within Stelvia, with no official standing or IAU recognition: the sky is not for sale and belongs to no one.
Astronomical data for HIP 97816
- Constellation
- Telescopium
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.76
- Distance
- 562.4 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 298.157° · Dec -54.971°
- Catalogue
- HIP 97816 · HD 187420
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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 906625.69
- HIP 956905.70
- HIP 961415.76
- HIP 923675.80
- HIP 914615.84