Star profile
HIP 97871
Variable starWhat is HIP 97871
It shines in Aquila with the precise whiteness of an A-type star and a discreet flicker that places it among the variables. Its light took just over 260 years to arrive: it set out when Benjamin Franklin was measuring the electricity of clouds and the Enlightenment was carving the world into categories. Aquila is a northern summer constellation, crossed by the Milky Way. There the star keeps a quiet pulse, away from the eagle s main axis.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 97871 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 97871
- Constellation
- Aquila
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.63
- Distance
- 261.4 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 298.328° · Dec -3.114°
- Catalogue
- HIP 97871 · HD 188041
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Other stars in Aquila
Aquila has 72 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- AltairAlpha Aquilae0.76
- TarazedGamma Aquilae2.72
- OkabZeta Aquilae2.99
- HIP 946245.58
- 22 Aquilae5.59
- 58 Aquilae5.60
- 45 Aquilae5.64
- HIP 947205.65