Star profile
Elkurud
Theta Columbae · Columba
Hot blue starWhat is Elkurud
Elkurud lives in Columba, 'the dove', the constellation invented in the sixteenth century to represent the bird Noah released from the ark. It is a hot blue star, distant: 722 light-years away. The light crossing the southern sky tonight set out around 1304, in the heart of the Middle Ages, when Marco Polo was dictating in Genoa the account of his travels to China.
Where it is and when to see it
Elkurud 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 Elkurud
- Constellation
- Columba
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.00
- Distance
- 721.7 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 91.882° · Dec -37.253°
- Catalogue
- HIP 29034 · HD 42167
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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
- Omicron Columbae4.81
- Lambda Columbae4.88
- Xi Columbae4.97
- Mu Columbae5.18
- HIP 311655.25