Star profile
35 Eridani
Hot blue starWhat is 35 Eridani
35 Eridani burns as a blue B-class star about 414 light-years away, along the long celestial course of the river Eridanus. B stars are young and very hot, with surface temperatures well above the Sun s and relatively brief lives. The light reaching us tonight left in the early seventeenth century, when Kepler was publishing his laws of planetary motion.
Where it is and when to see it
35 Eridani 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 37° above the horizon.
- From New York it culminates about 48° above the horizon.
- From Sydney it culminates about 58° above the horizon.
It can be seen from anywhere south of 88° N.
It ranks no. 64 in brightness among the 129 stars of Eridanus in our catalogue. To find it, start from Achernar, the brightest: it lies about 63° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 410 years ago.
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Astronomical data for 35 Eridani
- Constellation
- Eridanus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.28
- Distance
- 414.0 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 60.384° · Dec -1.550°
- Catalogue
- HIP 18788 · HD 25340
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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
- Tau 7 Eridani5.24
- HIP 212975.24
- Rho 3 Eridani5.26
- Rho 2 Eridani5.32
- HIP 188595.38