Star profile
HIP 98416
What is HIP 98416
Just 72 light years away in the Eagle, this yellow-white F-type star shines at magnitude 5.87. Its light set out around 1953, the year Watson and Crick described the double helix of DNA in Cambridge. Being relatively close, its light is almost contemporary, and it represents one of those modest but intimate neighbours of the solar environment, where the catalogue of known stars thickens and distances become surprisingly human.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 98416 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 98416
- Constellation
- Aquila
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.87
- Distance
- 72.4 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 299.947° · Dec -9.958°
- Catalogue
- HIP 98416 · HD 189340
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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 952225.81
- HIP 935805.82
- HIP 957325.84
- 5 Aquilae5.89
- Upsilon Aquilae5.89