Star profile
HIP 18606
What is HIP 18606
Along the winding Eridanus shines a yellow class G star some 152 light-years away, a spectral cousin of the Sun. Its light set out around 1873, the year James Clerk Maxwell published his Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism, a work that would give rise to modern electromagnetism. That warm, almost familiar glow has crossed a century and a half of science to arrive as a yellow echo along the long course of Eridanus.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 18606 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: 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 18606
- Constellation
- Eridanus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.85
- Distance
- 151.5 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 59.718° · Dec -5.470°
- Catalogue
- HIP 18606 · HD 25069
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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 204655.81
- 6 Eridani5.82
- HIP 141105.84
- HIP 202715.85
- HIP 169895.86