Star profile

HIP 15305

3D likeness based on its real data · class K · ~4,200 K

What is HIP 15305

It shines in Horologium, one of the constellations named by Lacaille in honour of the pendulum clock, an instrument then revolutionary. Its orange tone places it among the K-class stars, mature giants of gentle combustion. Its light set out some 512 years ago, when Leonardo da Vinci was painting his last works in Italy and the printing press kept multiplying books across Europe. Broader and cooler than the Sun, it quietly upholds the symbolic figure of the celestial clock, measuring the cosmos's own time in its own way.

Where it is and when to see it

HIP 15305 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, when it culminates around midnight.

From London it never rises above the horizon.
From New York it culminates about 2° above the horizon.
From Sydney it culminates about 76° above the horizon.

It can be seen from anywhere south of 42° N.

It ranks no. 16 in brightness among the 18 stars of Horologium in our catalogue. To find it, start from Alpha Horologium, the brightest: it lies about 11° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).

The light you see today left it about 510 years ago.

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Astronomical data for HIP 15305

Constellation: Horologium
Apparent magnitude: 5.84
Distance: 512.1 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 49.361° · Dec -47.752°
Catalogue: HIP 15305 · HD 20640

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Other stars in Horologium

Horologium has 18 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.

See all 18 stars in Horologium