Star profile
HIP 110109
Nearby starWhat is HIP 110109
In the Crane of the southern sky beats a yellow G-type star, almost a cosmic neighbor at 45 light-years. Its light set out around 1981, the summer Voyager 2 swept past Saturn and returned the first sharp photographs of its rings. So like the Sun that an astronomer might confuse them —same temperature, same yellow calm— yet suspended in another galactic neighborhood.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 110109 lies in the southern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is August, when it culminates around midnight.
- From London it never rises above the horizon.
- From New York it never rises above the horizon.
- From Sydney it culminates about 70° above the horizon.
It can be seen from anywhere south of 36° N.
It ranks no. 16 in brightness among the 39 stars of Grus in our catalogue. To find it, start from Alnair, the brightest: it lies about 7° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 45 years ago.
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Astronomical data for HIP 110109
- Constellation
- Grus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.36
- Distance
- 45.0 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 334.564° · Dec -53.627°
- Catalogue
- HIP 110109 · HD 211415
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Other stars in Grus
Grus has 39 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- AlnairAlpha Grus1.73
- TiakiBeta Grus2.07
- AldhanabGamma Grus3.00
- Eta Grus4.84
- Mu 2 Grus5.11
- Xi Grus5.29
- Kappa Grus5.37
- HIP 1128325.43