Star profile
HIP 31407
Hot blue starWhat is HIP 31407
In the austral heart of Carina burns a blue ember that the eye scarcely recognizes. Its light spent nearly thirteen hundred and sixty-five years crossing the void —it set out when the Visigoth kingdoms were crumbling in Iberia and monks copied manuscripts by candlelight. A B-type star, far hotter and more violent than the Sun, it is a blue forge living fast within a constellation named for the keel of a ship.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 31407 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 culminates about 71° above the horizon.
It can be seen from anywhere south of 37° N.
It ranks no. 22 in brightness among the 124 stars of Carina in our catalogue. To find it, start from Canopus, the brightest: it lies about 2° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 1,400 years ago.
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Astronomical data for HIP 31407
- Constellation
- Carina
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.35
- Distance
- 1364.9 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 98.744° · Dec -52.976°
- Catalogue
- HIP 31407 · HD 47306
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Other stars in Carina
Carina has 124 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- CanopusAlpha Carinae-0.62
- MiaplacidusBeta Carinae1.67
- AviorEpsilon Carinae1.86
- HIP 469744.08
- HIP 425684.31
- HIP 454964.34
- HIP 327614.41
- HIP 518494.45