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: 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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A public signature from a real person. The chosen name is a symbolic denomination within Stelvia, with no official standing or IAU recognition: the sky is not for sale and belongs to no one.
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