Star profile
HIP 28790
What is HIP 28790
In the Stern, only 88 light years away, this yellow-white F-type star shines at magnitude 5.93. Its light set out around 1937, in the midst of the Spanish Civil War and on the eve of the Second World War: a neighbour whose glow has been travelling for barely a century. Somewhat hotter and more energetic than the Sun, it embodies that cosmic closeness that turns some stars into witnesses almost of flesh, almost of historical time.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 28790 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 28790
- Constellation
- Puppis
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.93
- Distance
- 87.7 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 91.167° · Dec -45.079°
- Catalogue
- HIP 28790 · HD 41742
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Other stars in Puppis
Puppis has 145 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- NaosZeta Puppis2.21
- Pi Puppis2.71
- TureisRho Puppis2.83
- HIP 379955.90
- HIP 392515.90
- HIP 373645.92
- HIP 329385.94
- HIP 348175.94