Star profile
HIP 104440
What is HIP 104440
In the plumage of Pavo glows a yellow G-type star, southern double of the Sun. Its light departed sixty-five years ago, when Yuri Gagarin was orbiting the Earth and humankind first leaned out into space. Warm and calm, it looks like a small family fire hung in the southern sky. To see it tonight is to return to the precise moment when humanity looked down from outside and discovered that its home was blue.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 104440 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 104440
- Constellation
- Pavo
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.67
- Distance
- 64.5 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 317.341° · Dec -73.173°
- Catalogue
- HIP 104440 · HD 200525
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Other stars in Pavo
Pavo has 44 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- PeacockAlpha Pavonis1.94
- Beta Pavonis3.42
- Delta Pavonis3.55
- HIP 947895.52
- HIP 894875.58
- HIP 1029625.67
- Theta Pavonis5.71
- HIP 906645.74