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, when it culminates around midnight.
- From London it never rises above the horizon.
- From New York it never rises above the horizon.
- From Sydney it never sets and culminates about 64° up.
It can be seen from anywhere south of 30° N.
It ranks no. 19 in brightness among the 23 stars of Pictor in our catalogue. To find it, start from Alpha Pictor, the brightest: it lies about 3° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 300 years ago.
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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