Star profile
HIP 15479
Cool red starWhat is HIP 15479
A cool red giant in tiny Fornax, almost a thousand light-years away. M-type stars at this distance tend to be bloated, patient, with surfaces cooler than the Sun's. The light crossing Fornax tonight set out around the year 1050, when the taifa kingdoms were fragmenting Al-Andalus and El Cid was barely a child.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 15479 lies in the southern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is November, when it culminates around midnight.
- From London it culminates about 14° above the horizon.
- From New York it culminates about 25° above the horizon.
- From Sydney it culminates about 80° above the horizon.
It can be seen from anywhere south of 66° N.
It ranks no. 13 in brightness among the 26 stars of Fornax in our catalogue. To find it, start from Dalim, the brightest: it lies about 5° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 980 years ago.
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Astronomical data for HIP 15479
- Constellation
- Fornax
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.63
- Distance
- 976.6 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 49.895° · Dec -24.123°
- Catalogue
- HIP 15479 · HD 20729
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Other stars in Fornax
Fornax has 26 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- DalimAlpha Fornax3.80
- Beta Fornax4.45
- Nu Fornax4.68
- Gamma 2 Fornax5.39
- Eta 3 Fornax5.48
- Rho Fornax5.52
- Zeta Fornax5.69
- Chi 2 Fornax5.71