Star profile
HIP 22860
What is HIP 22860
A yellow G-type star, distant sister of the Sun in colour and temperature, shines quietly in Eridanus, the long celestial river. Its light set out almost five centuries ago, when Cervantes was sending the «Quijote» to print and the Castilian tongue was discovering its definitive form. After 473 light-years of travel, that golden, unhurried glow arrives as a belated nod to an age that learned to tell the world in words we are still pronouncing today.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 22860 lies in the southern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is December: 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.
It opens in your browser. Free, no account, nothing to install.
The signature wall
Stelvia's sky works like a signature wall: anyone can leave their name and a message on a real star, and that signature goes up on the map for everyone to read. Signing is free.
A signature without a lock can be replaced by someone else's. The lock makes the signature permanent and lets you choose a symbolic name for the star, always shown next to the star's catalogue identifier. How the lock works
If you don't have an account yet, we'll ask for an email to confirm it's you: we send you a link and that's it, no password.
A public signature from a real person. The chosen name is a symbolic denomination within Stelvia, with no official standing or IAU recognition: the sky is not for sale and belongs to no one.
Astronomical data for HIP 22860
- Constellation
- Eridanus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.71
- Distance
- 473.4 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 73.778° · Dec -16.741°
- Catalogue
- HIP 22860 · HD 31414
A symbolic commemorative gift: neither the signature nor the chosen name implies ownership of the star or recognition by the IAU.
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 182625.70
- HIP 195115.70
- 46 Eridani5.71
- HIP 228815.71
- HIP 154115.72