Star profile
HIP 19996
What is HIP 19996
In Eridanus, the celestial river meandering from Orion toward the south, a yellow G-class sun shines 756.8 light-years away. A distant relative of our own, its light takes more than seven centuries to arrive: tonight's beam set out when Dante was finishing the Divine Comedy in his Ravenna exile and the Italian language was fixing its literary form for ever.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 19996 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 32° above the horizon.
- From New York it culminates about 43° above the horizon.
- From Sydney it culminates about 63° above the horizon.
It can be seen from anywhere south of 84° N.
It ranks no. 123 in brightness among the 129 stars of Eridanus in our catalogue. To find it, start from Achernar, the brightest: it lies about 60° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 760 years ago.
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Astronomical data for HIP 19996
- Constellation
- Eridanus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.95
- Distance
- 756.8 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 64.330° · Dec -6.472°
- Catalogue
- HIP 19996 · HD 27179
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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 149135.92
- HIP 134795.93
- HIP 187235.93
- HIP 208925.95
- HIP 210425.95