Star profile
HIP 23475
What is HIP 23475
In the river Eridanus, that winding course crossing the southern sky, shines an orange star of K type. Its light set out almost three hundred years ago, towards the start of the eighteenth century, when the great dictionaries and encyclopaedias were beginning to give shape to Enlightenment thought. Cooler and redder than the Sun, it unfolds the warm amber proper to mature giants. Like a coppery glint on deep water, it discreetly follows the long course of the celestial river, never claiming the foreground yet never leaving its bank.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 23475 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.
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Astronomical data for HIP 23475
- Constellation
- Eridanus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.86
- Distance
- 299.8 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 75.689° · Dec -4.210°
- Catalogue
- HIP 23475 · HD 32393
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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
- HIP 202715.85
- HIP 169895.86
- HIP 203415.86
- HIP 111025.90
- HIP 178055.91