Star profile
HIP 27938
What is HIP 27938
Beneath the hunter's feet, in the hare Lepus, radiates an orange giant some 663 light-years away. Its light set off around 1362, when the Black Death still spread mourning across Europe and the guilds were reordering the cities. Cooler and more voluminous than the Sun, its amber tone seems to dye the darkness with the calm of an old fire.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 27938 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 27938
- Constellation
- Lepus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.62
- Distance
- 663.0 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 88.682° · Dec -11.774°
- Catalogue
- HIP 27938 · HD 39853
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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 292055.56
- HIP 241695.60
- HIP 235545.61
- HIP 252805.64
- HIP 231665.65