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: 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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A public signature from a real person. The chosen name is a symbolic denomination within Stelvia, with no official standing or IAU recognition: the sky is not for sale and belongs to no one.
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