Star profile
HIP 24505
Hot blue starWhat is HIP 24505
One of the blue gems of Lepus, the hare forever fleeing beneath Orion. Its light set off 278 years ago, when the French Encyclopaedists were gathering the knowledge of the world and Linnaeus was ordering living nature. A B-class star —hot, massive, intensely blue— its brilliance is far more energetic than the Sun's and will last only a few tens of millions of years.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 24505 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 12° above the horizon.
- From New York it culminates about 22° above the horizon.
- From Sydney it culminates about 83° above the horizon.
It can be seen from anywhere south of 63° N.
It ranks no. 18 in brightness among the 45 stars of Lepus in our catalogue. To find it, start from Arneb, the brightest: it lies about 10° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 280 years ago.
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Astronomical data for HIP 24505
- Constellation
- Lepus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.06
- Distance
- 278.1 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 78.852° · Dec -26.944°
- Catalogue
- HIP 24505 · HD 34310
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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
- 17 Leporis4.92
- HIP 234305.01
- HIP 286755.03
- HIP 250455.06
- 8 Leporis5.25