Star profile
HIP 114407
Cool red starWhat is HIP 114407
The crane of the southern sky, Grus, holds this cool red M-class star 919 light-years away. M stars burn with a low warmth, almost a whisper of red light, but they can swell to staggering sizes. The light arriving tonight set out when the Normans were invading England at the battle of Hastings and a comet was crossing the sky —the one Halley would identify six centuries later—.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 114407 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 114407
- Constellation
- Grus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.90
- Distance
- 918.9 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 347.541° · Dec -40.592°
- Catalogue
- HIP 114407 · HD 218655
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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 1141675.81
- HIP 1143825.83
- Sigma 2 Grus5.85
- HIP 1149215.92
- HIP 1121175.99