Star profile
HIP 13479
What is HIP 13479
Three hundred and sixty-four light years along the winding course of Eridanus: the light observed today from this yellow G-type departed around 1662, the year Boyle published his law of gases and the Royal Society received its royal charter. A star from the same spectral family as the Sun, though more distant and luminous, shining in a constellation that snakes between the celestial equator and the southern pole.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 13479 lies in the southern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is October: 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 13479
- Constellation
- Eridanus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.93
- Distance
- 364.1 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 43.397° · Dec -22.376°
- Catalogue
- HIP 13479 · HD 18071
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Other stars in Eridanus
Eridanus has 129 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- AchernarAlpha Eridani0.45
- CursaBeta Eridani2.78
- AcamarTheta 1 Eridani2.88
- HIP 111025.90
- HIP 178055.91
- HIP 149135.92
- HIP 187235.93
- HIP 199965.95