Star profile
HIP 18505
Hot blue starWhat is HIP 18505
Within northern Camelopardalis glows a blue B-type star, young and hot, separated from us by 361 light years. Its light set out around the days of Galileo, when the first telescope began to lay the heavens bare. Far more massive than the Sun, it burns with an intensity that makes it one of those brief lighthouses of the cosmos.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 18505 lies in the northern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is December, when it culminates around midnight.
- From London it never sets and culminates about 78° up.
- From New York it never sets and culminates about 68° up.
- From Sydney it never rises above the horizon.
It can be seen from anywhere north of 27° S.
It ranks no. 13 in brightness among the 75 stars of Camelopardalis in our catalogue. To find it, start from Beta Camelopardalis, the brightest: it lies about 8° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 360 years ago.
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Astronomical data for HIP 18505
- Constellation
- Camelopardalis
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.95
- Distance
- 360.8 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 59.356° · Dec 63.072°
- Catalogue
- HIP 18505 · HD 24479
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Other stars in Camelopardalis
Camelopardalis has 75 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- Beta Camelopardalis4.03
- HIP 162284.21
- Alpha Camelopardalis4.26
- HIP 299974.76
- HIP 175874.78
- HIP 365474.92
- HIP 184884.99
- HIP 190185.00