Star profile
HIP 28984
Cool red starWhat is HIP 28984
In Lepus, at Orion's feet, beats a variable red giant of M type whose light reaches us after more than twelve hundred years of travel. It set out deep in the early Middle Ages, when Charlemagne had just been crowned emperor and the Christian kingdoms were beginning to reorder Europe. Far cooler and far larger than the Sun, it gives off a deep crimson tone and slowly changes brightness, as if breathing. It is an old heart of red fire hidden in the timid figure of the hare, too discreet to dazzle yet too ancient to forget.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 28984 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 28984
- Constellation
- Lepus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.74
- Distance
- 1254.6 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 91.740° · Dec -21.812°
- Catalogue
- HIP 28984 · HD 41933
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Other stars in Lepus
Lepus has 45 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- ArnebAlpha Leporis2.58
- NihalBeta Leporis2.81
- Epsilon Leporis3.19
- HIP 292945.72
- HIP 269665.73
- 1 Leporis5.74
- HIP 253975.78
- HIP 275335.87