Star profile
HIP 15968
What is HIP 15968
In the small Hydrus, the southern water serpent, shines a yellow-white F-type star about 129 light-years away. Its light set out around 1897, the year J.J. Thomson discovered the electron and matter lost its last solidity. Hotter and whiter than the Sun, its gleam slides like a thread of water among the rings of the southern serpent.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 15968 lies in the southern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is August: 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 15968
- Constellation
- Hydrus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.96
- Distance
- 128.5 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 51.401° · Dec -69.336°
- Catalogue
- HIP 15968 · HD 21722
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Other stars in Hydrus
Hydrus has 20 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- Beta Hydrus2.82
- Alpha Hydrus2.86
- Gamma Hydrus3.26
- HIP 145215.67
- HIP 79215.70
- HIP 66315.92
- HIP 17065.96
- Kappa Hydrus5.99