Star profile
Epsilon Reticulum
What is Epsilon Reticulum
Epsilon Reticuli is a double system just 60 light-years away, in the small southern constellation of the Reticle. The primary is an orange K-type giant orbited by a giant planet, confirmed in 2000 by the Anglo-Australian team: a world of 1.56 Jupiter masses completing one orbit every 428 days at 1.27 astronomical units. Its fainter companion is a white dwarf, the quiet ember of another star.
Where it is and when to see it
Epsilon Reticulum 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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Astronomical data for Epsilon Reticulum
- Constellation
- Reticulum
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.44
- Distance
- 59.5 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 64.121° · Dec -59.302°
- Catalogue
- HIP 19921 · HD 27442
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Other stars in Reticulum
Reticulum has 16 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- Alpha Reticulum3.33
- Beta Reticulum3.84
- Gamma Reticulum4.48
- Delta Reticulum4.56
- Kappa Reticulum4.71
- Iota Reticulum4.97
- Zeta 2 Reticulum5.24
- Eta Reticulum5.24