Star profile
HIP 29616
What is HIP 29616
In Orion —the sky's most famous hunter— shines a white A-type star. Its light has been on its way some five hundred twenty-eight years: it set out as Columbus was returning from his first voyage and Europe was beginning to absorb the news of a new continent. Hotter and more luminous than the Sun, it radiates with the cold purity of a diamond. To look at it is to see the light that crossed the ocean in the same days as the ships of discovery.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 29616 lies in the northern 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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A public signature from a real person. The chosen name is a symbolic denomination within Stelvia, with no official standing or IAU recognition: the sky is not for sale and belongs to no one.
Astronomical data for HIP 29616
- Constellation
- Orion
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.86
- Distance
- 528.7 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 93.619° · Dec 17.906°
- Catalogue
- HIP 29616 · HD 42954
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Other stars in Orion
Orion has 128 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- RigelBeta Orionis0.18
- BetelgeuseAlpha Orionis0.45
- BellatrixGamma Orionis1.64
- HIP 275495.79
- HIP 257085.80
- HIP 295755.83
- HIP 264875.87
- HIP 280115.87