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: 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 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