Star profile
HIP 28854
What is HIP 28854
In Monoceros, the discreet celestial unicorn, shines a yellow-white F-type star about one hundred and eighty light years away. Its light set out in the late nineteenth century, when the first skyscrapers were rising in Chicago and photography was beginning to capture moments that until then belonged only to memory. Slightly hotter and more luminous than the Sun, it is an elder sister with a crisp disk. The constellation, drawn in the seventeenth century, appears in no ancient catalog: beneath it, this star burns without ever having been sung by any mythology.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 28854 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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A public signature from a real person. The chosen name is a symbolic denomination within Stelvia, with no official standing or IAU recognition: the sky is not for sale and belongs to no one.
Astronomical data for HIP 28854
- Constellation
- Monoceros
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.88
- Distance
- 179.1 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 91.363° · Dec -10.243°
- Catalogue
- HIP 28854 · HD 41547
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Other stars in Monoceros
Monoceros has 71 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- Beta Monocerotis3.76
- Alpha Monocerotis3.94
- Gamma Monocerotis3.99
- HIP 357495.83
- HIP 363995.86
- HIP 306665.87
- HIP 305455.88
- 12 Monocerotis5.88