Star profile
HIP 28287
What is HIP 28287
In Pictor, the painter's easel of the southern modern sky, a yellow G-class star burns with familiar warmth. Its light began its journey almost twelve hundred years ago, when Charlemagne was crowned emperor and Europe was taking its first steps toward a new order. A distant kin of the Sun, it shines with the quiet patience of stars that have already learned to last.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 28287 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, when it culminates around midnight.
- From London it never rises above the horizon.
- From New York it culminates about 5° above the horizon.
- From Sydney it culminates about 80° above the horizon.
It can be seen from anywhere south of 46° N.
It ranks no. 20 in brightness among the 23 stars of Pictor in our catalogue. To find it, start from Alpha Pictor, the brightest: it lies about 19° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 1,200 years ago.
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Astronomical data for HIP 28287
- Constellation
- Pictor
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.81
- Distance
- 1181.9 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 89.656° · Dec -44.035°
- Catalogue
- HIP 28287 · HD 40733
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Other stars in Pictor
Pictor has 23 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- Alpha Pictor3.24
- Beta Pictor3.85
- Gamma Pictor4.50
- HIP 284845.65
- Mu Pictor5.69
- HIP 304635.78
- HIP 307035.82
- HIP 258875.86