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: 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 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