Star profile
HIP 113902
What is HIP 113902
In Grus, the southern crane introduced by sixteenth-century Dutch navigators, an orange K-class sun shines 311 light-years away. Its warm hue softens the dense black of the southern hemisphere. The light now reaching telescopes departed when Newton was publishing the Opticks and the very nature of light was beginning to be understood as physics rather than philosophy.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 113902 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 113902
- Constellation
- Grus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.79
- Distance
- 311.0 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 345.998° · Dec -41.479°
- Catalogue
- HIP 113902 · HD 217842
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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
- Tau 3 Grus5.72
- HIP 1155375.75
- HIP 1147755.77
- HIP 1141675.81
- HIP 1143825.83