Star profile
HIP 16509
What is HIP 16509
In quiet Horologium, almost at the southern depths of the sky, an orange class K star travels in from some 312 light-years away. Its light set out around 1713, when the Peace of Utrecht was being signed and Europe was redrawing its borders after the War of the Spanish Succession. Cooler than the Sun and faint to the naked eye, it asks for patience to be found in a corner seldom visited by the human gaze.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 16509 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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A public signature from a real person. The chosen name is a symbolic denomination within Stelvia, with no official standing or IAU recognition: the sky is not for sale and belongs to no one.
Astronomical data for HIP 16509
- Constellation
- Horologium
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.67
- Distance
- 312.5 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 53.145° · Dec -50.379°
- Catalogue
- HIP 16509 · HD 22231
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Other stars in Horologium
Horologium has 18 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- Alpha Horologium3.85
- Delta Horologium4.93
- Beta Horologium4.98
- HIP 201615.33
- Lambda Horologium5.36
- Iota Horologium5.40
- HIP 149305.71
- HIP 175345.72