Star profile
HIP 25280
What is HIP 25280
Beneath the feet of Orion, in the silent Hare, shines a white A-class star, hotter and brighter than the Sun, just over two hundred and twenty light-years away. Its crystalline light set out as the French encyclopaedists were sharpening their pens and the European kingdoms were debating the balance of the Old Regime. Its pearly tone belongs to those young, elegant stars that carve the southern winters with an almost metallic glint.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 25280 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 22° above the horizon.
- From New York it culminates about 32° above the horizon.
- From Sydney it culminates about 73° above the horizon.
It can be seen from anywhere south of 73° N.
It ranks no. 32 in brightness among the 45 stars of Lepus in our catalogue. To find it, start from Arneb, the brightest: it lies about 2° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 220 years ago.
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Astronomical data for HIP 25280
- Constellation
- Lepus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.64
- Distance
- 222.7 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 81.119° · Dec -16.976°
- Catalogue
- HIP 25280 · HD 35505
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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 241695.60
- HIP 235545.61
- HIP 279385.62
- HIP 231665.65
- HIP 236685.71