Star profile
HIP 30728
What is HIP 30728
On the discreet horn of the Unicorn shines a yellow type-G star, akin to the Sun but more distant: 308 light-years separate us. Its light set out in the heart of the Enlightenment, when the French encyclopaedists were publishing the volumes of Diderot and d'Alembert and reason was rising as a new lantern. It has travelled for three centuries to peer down, modest, in a modern and almost forgotten constellation.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 30728 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 30728
- Constellation
- Monoceros
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.55
- Distance
- 308.0 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 96.835° · Dec 2.908°
- Catalogue
- HIP 30728 · HD 45415
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Other stars in Monoceros
Monoceros has 71 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- Beta Monocerotis3.76
- Alpha Monocerotis3.94
- Gamma Monocerotis3.99
- HIP 379015.49
- HIP 315835.52
- HIP 307205.55
- HIP 311675.60
- HIP 363885.60