Star profile
HIP 113562
What is HIP 113562
Piscis Austrinus, that quiet figure of the southern sky, watches over this orange giant 686 light-years away. Its light departed in the fourteenth century, when the Black Death was sweeping through Europe and Boccaccio was writing the Decameron to ward off fear. A K-class flame that outlived a human disaster and still travels through space in silence.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 113562 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: 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 113562
- Constellation
- Piscis Austrinus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.66
- Distance
- 686.7 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 345.024° · Dec -25.164°
- Catalogue
- HIP 113562 · HD 217303
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Other stars in Piscis Austrinus
Piscis Austrinus has 26 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- FomalhautAlpha Piscis Austrini1.17
- Epsilon Piscis Austrini4.18
- Delta Piscis Austrini4.20
- HIP 1136695.55
- HIP 1097375.58
- HIP 1118095.66
- 8 Piscis Austrini5.73
- HIP 1116005.82