Star profile
HIP 11840
What is HIP 11840
At 271 light-years, in the modest northern Triangle, blazes an orange giant whose light set out in the late eighteenth century, when William Herschel discovered Uranus and doubled the known size of the solar system. Cooler and larger than the Sun, its amber tone marks a mature star. It inhabits a small, almost minimalist constellation, drawn by three modest stars in the autumn sky.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 11840 lies in the northern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is November: 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 11840
- Constellation
- Triangulum
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.84
- Distance
- 271.6 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 38.219° · Dec 34.542°
- Catalogue
- HIP 11840 · HD 15755
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Other stars in Triangulum
Triangulum has 18 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- Beta Triangulum3.00
- MothallahAlpha Triangulum3.42
- Gamma Triangulum4.03
- 11 Triangulum5.55
- HIP 79435.63
- HIP 84335.78
- HIP 91325.84
- 13 Triangulum5.89