Star profile

HIP 29205

3D likeness based on its real data · class K · ~4,200 K

What is HIP 29205

Beneath the feet of Orion runs the Hare, and there shines this orange K-type giant. Its light took two hundred eight years to reach us: it set out around 1818, when Mary Shelley was publishing her Frankenstein in London and opening a new era for European literature. Cooler and far more voluminous than the Sun, it is one of those orange embers that populate the winter sky —a silent echo of the fire it once was, much like our own.

Where it is and when to see it

HIP 29205 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, when it culminates around midnight.

From London it culminates about 24° above the horizon.
From New York it culminates about 35° above the horizon.
From Sydney it culminates about 71° above the horizon.

It can be seen from anywhere south of 75° N.

It ranks no. 28 in brightness among the 45 stars of Lepus in our catalogue. To find it, start from Arneb, the brightest: it lies about 9° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).

The light you see today left it about 210 years ago.

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Astronomical data for HIP 29205

Constellation: Lepus
Apparent magnitude: 5.56
Distance: 208.2 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 92.394° · Dec -14.585°
Catalogue: HIP 29205 · HD 42341

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Other stars in Lepus

Lepus has 45 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.

See all 45 stars in Lepus