Star profile

HIP 31165

3D likeness based on its real data · class G · ~5,500 K

What is HIP 31165

In the small southern constellation of Columba glows a yellow star, a spectral sister to the Sun but older and more luminous. Its light set out more than two hundred and seventy years ago, when the French encyclopaedists were weaving the first great inventory of human knowledge and cabinets of curiosities filled up with minerals and maps. Its warm glow recalls a time when reason was beginning to light up the salons of Europe with the same steadiness this star has burned for millennia.

Where it is and when to see it

HIP 31165 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 culminates about 1° above the horizon.
From New York it culminates about 12° above the horizon.
From Sydney it culminates about 86° above the horizon.

It can be seen from anywhere south of 52° N.

It ranks no. 13 in brightness among the 45 stars of Columba in our catalogue. To find it, start from Phact, the brightest: it lies about 11° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).

The light you see today left it about 270 years ago.

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Astronomical data for HIP 31165

Constellation: Columba
Apparent magnitude: 5.25
Distance: 273.2 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 98.089° · Dec -37.697°
Catalogue: HIP 31165 · HD 46568

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Other stars in Columba

Columba has 45 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.

See all 45 stars in Columba