Star profile
HIP 103836
What is HIP 103836
In the modest Microscopium, the constellation dedicated to the instrument that opened the invisible world, radiates an orange giant about 220 light-years away. Its light set out around 1806, when Napoleon was decreeing the Continental Blockade and Europe was being reordered by cannon fire. Larger and cooler than the Sun, its amber tone slips like a whisper among the anonymous stars of the southern field.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 103836 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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A public signature from a real person. The chosen name is a symbolic denomination within Stelvia, with no official standing or IAU recognition: the sky is not for sale and belongs to no one.
Astronomical data for HIP 103836
- Constellation
- Microscopium
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.93
- Distance
- 219.7 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 315.613° · Dec -38.531°
- Catalogue
- HIP 103836 · HD 200073
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Other stars in Microscopium
Microscopium has 23 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- Gamma Microscopium4.67
- Epsilon Microscopium4.71
- Theta 1 Microscopium4.80
- Delta Microscopium5.69
- HIP 1020925.75
- Theta 2 Microscopium5.76
- HIP 1046805.83
- HIP 1047525.97