Star profile
HIP 97961
What is HIP 97961
Vulpecula, the little Fox stitched between Cygnus and Aquila, holds here a white class A star. Its photon has crossed 470 years of void: it left when Drake was rounding the Americas in the Golden Hind and maps still drew dragons in the unexplored oceans. The light has not changed color along the way; the world has.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 97961 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, when it culminates around midnight.
- From London it culminates about 63° above the horizon.
- From New York it culminates about 74° above the horizon.
- From Sydney it culminates about 32° above the horizon.
It can be seen from anywhere north of 66° S.
It ranks no. 29 in brightness among the 44 stars of Vulpecula in our catalogue. To find it, start from Anser, the brightest: it lies about 6° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 470 years ago.
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Astronomical data for HIP 97961
- Constellation
- Vulpecula
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.56
- Distance
- 470.7 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 298.629° · Dec 24.319°
- Catalogue
- HIP 97961 · HD 188485
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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
- 18 Vulpecula5.51
- 19 Vulpecula5.51
- HIP 977655.54
- 27 Vulpecula5.59
- 5 Vulpecula5.60