Star profile
HIP 30703
What is HIP 30703
Orange on the small easel of Pictor —a southern constellation Lacaille invented to honour the painter— this K giant reaches us from 563 light-years. Its light set off around 1463, while Piero della Francesca was painting geometric perspectives in Italy that would change the way of seeing. Painter and painted, perhaps in sympathy.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 30703 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 66° up.
It can be seen from anywhere south of 32° N.
It ranks no. 21 in brightness among the 23 stars of Pictor in our catalogue. To find it, start from Alpha Pictor, the brightest: it lies about 5° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 560 years ago.
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Astronomical data for HIP 30703
- Constellation
- Pictor
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.82
- Distance
- 563.4 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 96.767° · Dec -58.002°
- Catalogue
- HIP 30703 · HD 45984
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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
- Mu Pictor5.69
- HIP 304635.78
- HIP 282875.81
- HIP 258875.86
- HIP 277375.93