Star profile
HIP 21479
Variable starWhat is HIP 21479
In the southern Goldfish pulses a restless red giant 178 light-years away, gleaming beside the Large Magellanic Cloud. Its light departed around 1847, when Lord Rosse had just charted spiral nebulae with his Leviathan telescope at Parsonstown. M-type variables are weary hearts: their cool atmosphere expands and contracts, tracing rhythms that last whole months.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 21479 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 21479
- Constellation
- Dorado
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.59
- Distance
- 178.2 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 69.190° · Dec -62.077°
- Catalogue
- HIP 21479 · HD 29712
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Other stars in Dorado
Dorado has 18 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- Alpha Dorado3.30
- Beta Dorado3.76
- Gamma Dorado4.26
- Kappa Dorado5.28
- HIP 260015.34
- Pi 2 Dorado5.37
- Pi 1 Dorado5.56
- Eta 1 Dorado5.72