Star profile
HIP 114775
What is HIP 114775
In Grus, the Crane of the southern sky, pulses this K-class orange at two hundred and fifty light-years. Its light departed in 1776, the year the thirteen American colonies signed their Declaration of Independence. As a new nation was being born on one shore of the Atlantic, this coppery dot of the southern hemisphere was already sending out its photons —utterly oblivious to the fate of any nation.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 114775 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 114775
- Constellation
- Grus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.77
- Distance
- 249.8 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 348.744° · Dec -41.105°
- Catalogue
- HIP 114775 · HD 219263
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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 1136575.68
- Tau 3 Grus5.72
- HIP 1155375.75
- HIP 1139025.79
- HIP 1141675.81