Star profile
Lambda Horologium
What is Lambda Horologium
Lambda Horologii is a yellow-white star at 161 light-years, hanging in a modern southern constellation that nods to the precision pendulum clock of the eighteenth century. It is F-type, slightly hotter than the Sun, part of that temperate band of the spectral catalogue where astronomers patiently hunt for solar analogues. A measured, precise light, set in a constellation devised to measure time itself.
Where it is and when to see it
Lambda Horologium 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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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 Lambda Horologium
- Constellation
- Horologium
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.36
- Distance
- 161.1 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 36.225° · Dec -60.312°
- Catalogue
- HIP 11258 · HD 15233
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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
- Nu Horologium5.25
- Eta Horologium5.30
- HIP 201615.33
- Iota Horologium5.40
- HIP 165095.67