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, when it culminates around midnight.
- From London it never rises above the horizon.
- From New York it culminates about 8° above the horizon.
- From Sydney it culminates about 82° above the horizon.
It can be seen from anywhere south of 49° N.
It ranks no. 33 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 310 years ago.
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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