Star profile
Gamma Sagitta
What is Gamma Sagitta
Gamma Sagittae inhabits the small Arrow, a tiny but perfectly recognisable asterism cutting across the summer Milky Way. It is the brightest of its constellation, an orange K-type giant whose light has been travelling for more than two and a half centuries: what arrives tonight set out while the United States Constitution was still being drafted. Its warm glow marks the very tip of the arrow that, in Greek myth, Heracles loosed at the Stymphalian Birds.
Where it is and when to see it
Gamma Sagitta 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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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 Gamma Sagitta
- Constellation
- Sagitta
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.51
- Distance
- 258.5 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 299.689° · Dec 19.492°
- Catalogue
- HIP 98337 · HD 189319
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Other stars in Sagitta
Sagitta has 14 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- Delta Sagitta3.68
- ShamAlpha Sagitta4.39
- Beta Sagitta4.39
- Zeta Sagitta5.01
- Eta Sagitta5.09
- 13 Sagitta5.33
- 11 Sagitta5.54
- 1 Sagitta5.65