Star profile
HIP 115620
What is HIP 115620
In the small constellation of Tucana gleams an orange K-type star, a coppery dot of the southern sky. Its light departed two hundred and ninety years ago, when Fahrenheit was fixing his temperature scale and science was learning to count the heat of the world. Cooler than the Sun, its glow arrives like a tempered ember in the southern night. Each spark recalls an age when measuring everything became, at last, possible.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 115620 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 never rises above the horizon.
- From Sydney it never sets and culminates about 67° up.
It can be seen from anywhere south of 33° N.
It ranks no. 18 in brightness among the 28 stars of Tucana in our catalogue. To find it, start from Alpha Tucanae, the brightest: it lies about 9° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 290 years ago.
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Astronomical data for HIP 115620
- Constellation
- Tucana
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.60
- Distance
- 290.5 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 351.331° · Dec -56.849°
- Catalogue
- HIP 115620 · HD 220572
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Other stars in Tucana
Tucana has 28 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- Alpha Tucanae2.87
- Gamma Tucanae3.99
- Zeta Tucanae4.23
- Lambda 2 Tucanae5.45
- Pi Tucanae5.50
- HIP 3775.59
- HIP 1157695.63
- HIP 1149485.64