Star profile
HIP 24169
Variable starWhat is HIP 24169
A red variable in Lepus: her brightness shifts, pulses, beats to her own rhythm. Her light has been travelling 486 years —it set out around 1540, while Copernicus was finishing his heliocentric treatise that would soon dethrone the Earth from the centre of the cosmos. Variable M stars are bodies ageing aloud, dilating and contracting like cosmic lungs.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 24169 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 27° above the horizon.
- From New York it culminates about 37° above the horizon.
- From Sydney it culminates about 68° above the horizon.
It can be seen from anywhere south of 78° N.
It ranks no. 29 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 490 years ago.
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Astronomical data for HIP 24169
- Constellation
- Lepus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.60
- Distance
- 486.1 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 77.845° · Dec -11.849°
- Catalogue
- HIP 24169 · HD 33664
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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 291505.49
- 10 Leporis5.53
- HIP 292055.56
- HIP 235545.61
- HIP 279385.62