Star profile
HIP 20264
What is HIP 20264
The river Eridanus winds through the southern sky, carrying with it this white class A star roughly four hundred and seventy-five light years away. Its light set out around the years when Galileo first turned his spyglass on Jupiter and discovered its four largest moons. It now reaches eyepieces that have watched probes visit those same satellites.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 20264 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 18° above the horizon.
- From New York it culminates about 29° above the horizon.
- From Sydney it culminates about 77° above the horizon.
It can be seen from anywhere south of 69° N.
It ranks no. 67 in brightness among the 129 stars of Eridanus in our catalogue. To find it, start from Achernar, the brightest: it lies about 47° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 480 years ago.
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Astronomical data for HIP 20264
- Constellation
- Eridanus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.38
- Distance
- 475.5 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 65.163° · Dec -20.640°
- Catalogue
- HIP 20264 · HD 27616
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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
- 35 Eridani5.28
- Rho 2 Eridani5.32
- HIP 188595.38
- 63 Eridani5.39
- 4 Eridani5.44