Star profile
HYG 119620
Highly luminous starWhat is HYG 119620
In southern Carina seems to burn a colossal yellow star sitting at hundreds of thousands of light-years away. Its light set out in an era predating human civilisation and crossed silences between interstellar clouds and entire galaxies. Tens of thousands of times more luminous than the Sun, it lifts a golden flame of incomprehensible scale in the depths of the cosmos.
Where it is and when to see it
HYG 119620 lies in the southern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is January: 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 119620
- Constellation
- Carina
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.98
- Distance
- 326200.0 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 95.907° · Dec -52.181°
- Catalogue
- HYG 119620 · HD 45291
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Other stars in Carina
Carina has 124 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- CanopusAlpha Carinae-0.62
- MiaplacidusBeta Carinae1.67
- AviorEpsilon Carinae1.86
- HIP 350845.96
- HIP 409325.96
- HIP 521275.96
- HIP 516235.98
- HIP 528275.98