Star profile
HIP 16285
What is HIP 16285
In Eridanus, the celestial river, flows the light of a white star. Its glow crossed some 213 years before reaching us: it set out around 1813, when Napoleon lost the Battle of Leipzig and Goya painted his disasters of war. Hotter and more massive than the Sun, its clean light seems to drift along the dark course of the southern river.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 16285 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 16285
- Constellation
- Eridanus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.76
- Distance
- 213.5 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 52.480° · Dec -42.634°
- Catalogue
- HIP 16285 · HD 21882
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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 220865.72
- HIP 161425.74
- Rho 1 Eridani5.75
- HIP 211925.76
- 59 Eridani5.76