Star profile

HIP 112381

3D likeness based on its real data · class K · ~4,200 K

What is HIP 112381

Mature orange in Grus, 787 light years away. The light now settling on the southern horizon set out around 1238, in the midst of the Reconquista, when James I took Valencia. A calm K-class star, with no detectable physical drama: Hipparcos measured its parallax and brightness, and from there only the imagination can paint its surface of gentle fire.

Where it is and when to see it

HIP 112381 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 culminates about 3° above the horizon.
From Sydney it culminates about 77° above the horizon.

It can be seen from anywhere south of 43° N.

It ranks no. 22 in brightness among the 39 stars of Grus in our catalogue. To find it, start from Alnair, the brightest: it lies about 6° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).

The light you see today left it about 790 years ago.

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Astronomical data for HIP 112381

Constellation: Grus
Apparent magnitude: 5.52
Distance: 787.9 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 341.420° · Dec -46.547°
Catalogue: HIP 112381 · HD 215405

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Other stars in Grus

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