Star profile
HIP 114921
What is HIP 114921
The Crane —Grus, an austral bird introduced by 16th-century Dutch navigators— hosts an orange K-type star, cool and serene, 291 light-years away. Its light set out around 1735, when Linnaeus was publishing Systema Naturae and beginning to put order into the living world. Magnitude 5.92: a coppery glimmer contemporary with nature’s first great catalog.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 114921 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 114921
- Constellation
- Grus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.92
- Distance
- 291.0 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 349.166° · Dec -44.489°
- Catalogue
- HIP 114921 · HD 219507
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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 1144075.90
- HIP 1121175.99