Star profile
HIP 28899
What is HIP 28899
In Columba, the small dove of the southern sky, glows a white A-type star whose light set out around 1747, when Lacaille was embarking on his voyage to the Cape of Good Hope to chart the south. Hotter and more luminous than the Sun, it wears the clean white of stars still young. Its cold glow rests within a small, discreet constellation curiously named in honour of the ark.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 28899 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 28899
- Constellation
- Columba
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.79
- Distance
- 278.1 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 91.523° · Dec -29.759°
- Catalogue
- HIP 28899 · HD 41843
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Other stars in Columba
Columba has 45 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- PhactAlpha Columbae2.65
- WaznBeta Columbae3.12
- Delta Columbae3.85
- HIP 260195.75
- HIP 262195.76
- HIP 300695.76
- HIP 288555.80
- HIP 265455.81