Star profile
Pi 1 Dorado
What is Pi 1 Dorado
π¹ Doradus is an orange giant more than six hundred light-years away, in the constellation of the Goldfish charted by Dutch navigators of the 16th century. With π² it forms an optical pair drawing a double wink across the southern sky. Its warm K-type light speaks of a star already swollen, transitioning into the last phases of its nuclear life.
Where it is and when to see it
Pi 1 Dorado lies in the southern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is May: 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 Pi 1 Dorado
- Constellation
- Dorado
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.56
- Distance
- 619.0 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 95.659° · Dec -69.984°
- Catalogue
- HIP 30321 · HD 45669
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Other stars in Dorado
Dorado has 18 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- Alpha Dorado3.30
- Beta Dorado3.76
- Gamma Dorado4.26
- Kappa Dorado5.28
- HIP 260015.34
- Pi 2 Dorado5.37
- HIP 214795.59
- Eta 1 Dorado5.72