Star profile
Eta 1 Dorado
What is Eta 1 Dorado
Eta-1 Doradus is a quiet white star 322 light-years away in Dorado, the Goldfish—the constellation whose backdrop holds the Large Magellanic Cloud and the Tarantula Nebula. Though it belongs to the Milky Way, it shares its sky coordinates with one of the most studied corners of the nearby cosmos: every glance toward it also brushes, far beyond, that satellite galaxy.
Where it is and when to see it
Eta 1 Dorado lies in the southern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is February: 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 Eta 1 Dorado
- Constellation
- Dorado
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.72
- Distance
- 321.7 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 91.539° · Dec -66.040°
- Catalogue
- HIP 28909 · HD 42525
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Other stars in Dorado
Dorado has 18 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- Alpha Dorado3.30
- Beta Dorado3.76
- Gamma Dorado4.26
- Kappa Dorado5.28
- HIP 260015.34
- Pi 2 Dorado5.37
- Pi 1 Dorado5.56
- HIP 214795.59