Star profile
HYG 119131
Binary systemWhat is HYG 119131
White and discreet, it pulses along the flank of Ophiuchus as a point the eye barely separates from the background. It is a binary system —two suns bound by gravity, circling one another 84 light-years away. The light that crosses the atmosphere tonight left when the Wright brothers were still working out the lift equations of their first glider, in the years before Kitty Hawk.
Where it is and when to see it
HYG 119131 lies in the southern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is June: 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 HYG 119131
- Constellation
- Ophiuchus
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.40
- Distance
- 84.1 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 257.592° · Dec -15.727°
- Catalogue
- HYG 119131
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Other stars in Ophiuchus
Ophiuchus has 88 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- RasalhagueAlpha Ophiuchi2.08
- SabikEta Ophiuchi2.43
- Zeta Ophiuchi2.54
- Yed PosteriorEpsilon Ophiuchi3.23
- Theta Ophiuchi3.27
- Nu Ophiuchi3.32
- 72 Ophiuchi3.71
- Gamma Ophiuchi3.75