Star profile
HIP 27890
What is HIP 27890
Some 85.6 light-years away, within the quiet Dorado of southern skies, a K-type star pulses in patient amber. Its light set out when the first radio telescopes were beginning to listen to the silence of the universe and the hydrogen atom started revealing the hidden geography of the Milky Way. A serene candle in a constellation few seek and almost none quote.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 27890 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 27890
- Constellation
- Dorado
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.65
- Distance
- 85.6 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 88.525° · Dec -63.090°
- Catalogue
- HIP 27890 · HD 40409
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Other stars in Dorado
Dorado has 18 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- Alpha Dorado3.30
- Beta Dorado3.76
- Gamma Dorado4.26
- Delta Dorado4.34
- Zeta Dorado4.71
- Theta Dorado4.81
- Eta 2 Dorado5.01
- Nu Dorado5.06