Star profile
HIP 114366
What is HIP 114366
In the discreet constellation of Sculptor, devised by Lacaille in the eighteenth century, shines an orange K-type giant six hundred fifty light years away. Its light departed around the fourteenth century, when Petrarch was composing his Canzoniere in Tuscany and opening the way to the European literary Renaissance. Colder and far larger than the Sun, it offers its coppery glow to southern observers, fixed in the austral corner where the Sculptor's imaginary chisel carves in silence.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 114366 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 114366
- Constellation
- Sculptor
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.88
- Distance
- 649.8 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 347.436° · Dec -28.089°
- Catalogue
- HIP 114366 · HD 218619
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Other stars in Sculptor
Sculptor has 33 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- Alpha Sculptor4.30
- Beta Sculptor4.38
- Gamma Sculptor4.41
- HIP 79415.70
- HIP 71185.79
- HIP 65025.84
- Lambda 2 Sculptor5.90
- HIP 70165.92