Star profile
HIP 99889
What is HIP 99889
About 111 light-years away, in Cygnus, it shines with the yellowish-white tone of class F stars, somewhat hotter than the Sun. Its light set out in the early years of the twentieth century, when the Wright brothers had just lifted off the ground at Kitty Hawk and Einstein was quietly preparing the manuscripts that would change physics. It is a discreet, stable star, with no known variability or companion, one of so many anonymous suns to which the milky glow of the Milky Way is owed.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 99889 lies in the northern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is August: 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 99889
- Constellation
- Cygnus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.87
- Distance
- 111.8 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 304.003° · Dec 45.580°
- Catalogue
- HIP 99889 · HD 192985
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