Star profile
HIP 23166
What is HIP 23166
A yellow-white star in Lepus, the hare, close in cosmic terms: its light left just 132 years ago, when Edison was perfecting the incandescent lamp and the Lumière brothers were bringing the cinematograph to life. An F-class star, slightly hotter than the Sun, it bears the white-gold glow astronomers associate with balanced, long-lived stars.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 23166 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, when it culminates around midnight.
- From London it culminates about 22° above the horizon.
- From New York it culminates about 33° above the horizon.
- From Sydney it culminates about 72° above the horizon.
It can be seen from anywhere south of 74° N.
It ranks no. 33 in brightness among the 45 stars of Lepus in our catalogue. To find it, start from Arneb, the brightest: it lies about 8° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 130 years ago.
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Astronomical data for HIP 23166
- Constellation
- Lepus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.65
- Distance
- 132.0 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 74.756° · Dec -16.376°
- Catalogue
- HIP 23166 · HD 31925
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Other stars in Lepus
Lepus has 45 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- ArnebAlpha Leporis2.58
- NihalBeta Leporis2.81
- Epsilon Leporis3.19
- HIP 235545.61
- HIP 279385.62
- HIP 252805.64
- HIP 236685.71
- HIP 292345.71