Star profile
HIP 10871
What is HIP 10871
It glows orange in Horologium, the pendulum-clock constellation named by Lacaille in the southern sky, about 617 light years away. Its light set out around the 14th century, when Ibn Battuta was crossing the Islamic world and the University of Salamanca was consolidating its authority. A K-type star, cooler than the Sun, with a coppery tone that calls to mind slow fires. It pulses in a sky-region named by enlightened science, like a temporal echo between two eras.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 10871 lies in the southern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is September: 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 HIP 10871
- Constellation
- Horologium
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.81
- Distance
- 616.6 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 34.976° · Dec -55.945°
- Catalogue
- HIP 10871 · HD 14641
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Other stars in Horologium
Horologium has 18 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- Alpha Horologium3.85
- Delta Horologium4.93
- Beta Horologium4.98
- HIP 149305.71
- HIP 175345.72
- Gamma Horologium5.73
- HIP 153055.84
- HIP 181995.93