Star profile
HIP 24732
What is HIP 24732
In the northern giraffe of Camelopardalis glows this white A-type star. Its light set out around 363 years ago, near 1663, when James Gregory designed the first reflecting telescope and opened the door to a new way of looking at the sky. Hotter and brighter than the Sun, it offers a vivid, youthful white. Its constellation, drawn by Plancius in 1612, occupies a sky nearly mute of bright stars, in whose silence each star, like this one, gains a leading role.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 24732 lies in the northern 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 never sets and culminates about 68° up.
- From New York it never sets and culminates about 57° up.
- From Sydney it never rises above the horizon.
It can be seen from anywhere north of 17° S.
It ranks no. 61 in brightness among the 75 stars of Camelopardalis in our catalogue. To find it, start from Beta Camelopardalis, the brightest: it lies about 13° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 360 years ago.
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Astronomical data for HIP 24732
- Constellation
- Camelopardalis
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.81
- Distance
- 362.8 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 79.555° · Dec 73.268°
- Catalogue
- HIP 24732 · HD 33541
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Other stars in Camelopardalis
Camelopardalis has 75 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- Beta Camelopardalis4.03
- HIP 162284.21
- Alpha Camelopardalis4.26
- Tonatiuh5.78
- HIP 175855.79
- HIP 182175.80
- HIP 178915.82
- HIP 191295.88