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, when it culminates around midnight.
- From London it culminates about 33° above the horizon.
- From New York it culminates about 44° above the horizon.
- From Sydney it culminates about 62° above the horizon.
It can be seen from anywhere south of 85° N.
It ranks no. 113 in brightness among the 129 stars of Eridanus in our catalogue. To find it, start from Achernar, the brightest: it lies about 59° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 150 years ago.
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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