Star profile
HIP 114167
What is HIP 114167
Grus is the crane, another constellation traced by the Dutch southern navigators. This F-type yellow-white star is relatively close, one hundred and forty-nine light-years away, and its light left the star around 1876, when Alexander Graham Bell patented the telephone in Boston. Warm tone but not reddish, one of those stars halfway between the Sun and the hotter whites, with no fanfare.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 114167 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 never rises above the horizon.
- From Sydney it culminates about 73° above the horizon.
It can be seen from anywhere south of 39° N.
It ranks no. 34 in brightness among the 39 stars of Grus in our catalogue. To find it, start from Alnair, the brightest: it lies about 10° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 150 years ago.
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Astronomical data for HIP 114167
- Constellation
- Grus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.81
- Distance
- 149.1 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 346.812° · Dec -50.687°
- Catalogue
- HIP 114167 · HD 218269
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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
- HIP 1155375.75
- HIP 1147755.77
- HIP 1139025.79
- HIP 1143825.83
- Sigma 2 Grus5.85