Star profile

HIP 114775

3D likeness based on its real data · class K · ~4,200 K

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, when it culminates around midnight.

From London it never rises above the horizon.
From New York it culminates about 8° above the horizon.
From Sydney it culminates about 83° above the horizon.

It can be seen from anywhere south of 49° N.

It ranks no. 32 in brightness among the 39 stars of Grus in our catalogue. To find it, start from Alnair, the brightest: it lies about 13° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).

The light you see today left it about 250 years ago.

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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

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