Star profile
HIP 26868
Variable starWhat is HIP 26868
In modest Columba —the dove released by Noah, according to sixteenth-century cartographers— shines this B-type variable, bluish-white and hot. The light we see tonight set out 428 years ago: as it left, Cervantes had just returned from his captivity in Algiers and had not yet dreamt up Don Quixote.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 26868 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 26868
- Constellation
- Columba
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.29
- Distance
- 428.6 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 85.563° · Dec -34.668°
- Catalogue
- HIP 26868 · HD 38170
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Other stars in Columba
Columba has 45 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- PhactAlpha Columbae2.65
- WaznBeta Columbae3.12
- Delta Columbae3.85
- Mu Columbae5.18
- HIP 311655.25
- Nu 2 Columbae5.28
- HIP 312995.42
- HIP 266495.44