Star profile
HIP 20825
What is HIP 20825
In the discreet Reticulum of the southern sky —a constellation named by La Caille after a measuring instrument—, an orange giant casts its light across 358 years. It left as Newton was publishing his «Opticks» and beginning to unravel the colours of light. A class-K sun, cooler and older than ours, it offers a warm and quiet glow among constellations seldom visited by the human eye.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 20825 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 HIP 20825
- Constellation
- Reticulum
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.74
- Distance
- 358.1 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 66.942° · Dec -62.521°
- Catalogue
- HIP 20825 · HD 28732
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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
- Epsilon Reticulum4.44
- Eta Reticulum5.24
- HIP 198055.45
- Zeta 1 Reticulum5.53
- HIP 212535.79
- HIP 163685.81