Star profile
HIP 31446
Hot blue starWhat is HIP 31446
In the modest Monoceros, the celestial unicorn, flares a blue B-type star. Its light set out fifteen hundred and twenty-four years ago, when the Western Roman Empire was falling and Europe was entering a long night. Far hotter than the Sun, it casts a sharp, youthful blue, like a torch in an empty hall. Each of its flashes crosses, in silence, the hush of a millennium that redrew the map of the world.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 31446 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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Astronomical data for HIP 31446
- Constellation
- Monoceros
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.78
- Distance
- 1524.3 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 98.816° · Dec 0.890°
- Catalogue
- HIP 31446 · HD 46769
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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 330245.75
- HIP 363965.75
- HIP 384745.76
- HIP 328515.78
- HIP 342155.78