Star profile
HIP 31940
What is HIP 31940
The Giraffe is another modest figure invented by 17th century cartographers to fill a void in the north. There glows an orange class K star, cooler and more golden than the Sun. Its light took almost 700 years to arrive: it left when Marco Polo was still a fresh name in Venice and journeys to Asia were opening trade routes Europeans had never walked before.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 31940 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 31940
- Constellation
- Camelopardalis
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.75
- Distance
- 698.5 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 100.120° · Dec 77.996°
- Catalogue
- HIP 31940 · HD 45866
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Other stars in Camelopardalis
Camelopardalis has 75 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- Beta Camelopardalis4.03
- HIP 162284.21
- Alpha Camelopardalis4.26
- HIP 173425.74
- HIP 655955.74
- HIP 229365.75
- 1 Camelopardalis5.78
- Tonatiuh5.78