hip-14521

Variable star

Its story

A yellow-white F-type light oscillates from Hydrus at two hundred and seventy light years: the photon recorded today departed around 1755, the year of the Lisbon earthquake that shook Enlightenment confidence in natural order. Its brightness is variable, pulsing with the breath of an unstable star. Hydrus, the small water snake of the southern sky, was traced by Dutch navigators at the close of the sixteenth century.

Constellation: Hydrus
Apparent magnitude: 5.67
Distance: 270.3 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 46.883° · Dec -78.989°
Catalogue: HIP 14521 · HD 20313

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