Star profile
HIP 2711
What is HIP 2711
Barely 83 light-years separate the southern Phoenix from this yellow-white class F star. Its light set out around 1942, when Enrico Fermi achieved the first sustained nuclear chain reaction beneath the Stagg Field stands in Chicago and the world was being reshaped by war. Warmer and slightly more energetic than the Sun, this beacon arrives as a recent whisper from a seldom-visited southern sky.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 2711 lies in the southern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is September, when it culminates around midnight.
- From London it never rises above the horizon.
- From New York it never rises above the horizon.
- From Sydney it culminates about 72° above the horizon.
It can be seen from anywhere south of 38° N.
It ranks no. 28 in brightness among the 39 stars of Phoenix in our catalogue. To find it, start from Ankaa, the brightest: it lies about 10° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 83 years ago.
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Astronomical data for HIP 2711
- Constellation
- Phoenix
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.57
- Distance
- 83.1 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 8.616° · Dec -52.373°
- Catalogue
- HIP 2711 · HD 3158
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Other stars in Phoenix
Phoenix has 39 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- AnkaaAlpha Phoenicis2.40
- Beta Phoenicis3.32
- Gamma Phoenicis3.41
- HIP 82405.49
- Lambda 2 Phoenicis5.51
- HIP 1075.53
- HIP 93135.57
- HIP 23835.67