Its story
HIP 9956 has a visual magnitude of about 7.80: it usually needs binoculars or a small telescope, especially from light-polluted sites.
Equatorial coordinates for HIP 9956: right ascension 2h 8m 11s, declination +69° 52′ 52″ (J2000), in the region of the Cassiopeia constellation (IAU figure Cas).
HIP 9956. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 9956, HD 12761, Gaia DR3 521881720953352320. In the SkyKeepsake Cassiopeia (Cas) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.
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Compose this starFactsHIP 9956
- Right ascension
- 2h 08m 11s
- Declination
- +69° 52′ 52″
- Magnitude
- 7.80
- Distance
- ≈ 1,314 ly
Data: gaia-dr3