Star profile

HIP 30932

3D likeness based on its real data · class K · ~4,200 K

What is HIP 30932

In Pictor —the easel of the southern painter— burns an orange ember, an old K-class sun. Its 304 light-years place the origin of its light squarely in the Age of Enlightenment: Paris was boiling with the encyclopedists while Lavoisier was naming oxygen. That same brightness has spent centuries crossing the void to arrive on time tonight, upon the canvas of the southern sky.

Where it is and when to see it

HIP 30932 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 67° up.

It can be seen from anywhere south of 33° N.

It ranks no. 8 in brightness among the 23 stars of Pictor in our catalogue. To find it, start from Alpha Pictor, the brightest: it lies about 6° 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 30932

Constellation: Pictor
Apparent magnitude: 5.20
Distance: 304.3 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 97.369° · Dec -56.853°
Catalogue: HIP 30932 · HD 46355

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Other stars in Pictor

Pictor has 23 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.

See all 23 stars in Pictor