Star profile
HIP 30463
What is HIP 30463
On the southern easel of Pictor, a constellation outlined by Lacaille, shines this white A-type star, about 300 light-years distant. Its light began the journey around 1725, when Vivaldi was publishing The Four Seasons and Peter the Great had just died in Saint Petersburg. Hotter and brighter than the Sun, its white surface fires off photons with elegance. We see it today through the eyes of late Baroque Europe.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 30463 lies in the southern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is January: 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 30463
- Constellation
- Pictor
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.78
- Distance
- 303.4 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 96.058° · Dec -60.281°
- Catalogue
- HIP 30463 · HD 45557
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Other stars in Pictor
Pictor has 23 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- Alpha Pictor3.24
- Beta Pictor3.85
- Gamma Pictor4.50
- Nu Pictor5.60
- HIP 284845.65
- Mu Pictor5.69
- HIP 282875.81
- HIP 307035.82