Star profile

HIP 112832

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

What is HIP 112832

At 773 light years, in the neck of the Crane, a warm K-class star burns the orange of an ember. The light reaching the southern sky tonight took leave of its surface around 1252, deep in the reign of Alfonso X the Wise, while in Toledo astronomical treatises were being translated from Arabic into Latin. That same light, very likely, was already drifting over those translator-astronomers.

Where it is and when to see it

HIP 112832 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 10° above the horizon.
From Sydney it culminates about 85° above the horizon.

It can be seen from anywhere south of 51° N.

It ranks no. 18 in brightness among the 39 stars of Grus in our catalogue. To find it, start from Alnair, the brightest: it lies about 11° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).

The light you see today left it about 770 years ago.

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Astronomical data for HIP 112832

Constellation: Grus
Apparent magnitude: 5.43
Distance: 773.0 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 342.759° · Dec -39.157°
Catalogue: HIP 112832 · HD 216149

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