Star profile

HIP 32366

3D likeness based on its real data · class F · ~6,500 K

What is HIP 32366

In Canis Major, where the brightest star of the night reigns supreme, beats a modest yellow-white star whose light took only eighty years to cross the void. It set out as Europe was beginning to recover from the Great War and the first radio broadcasts were taming the silence. Slightly hotter than the Sun, its surface near six thousand five hundred degrees gives it a golden, clear, almost daylike light. It is a relatively close cosmic neighbour, a recent heartbeat compared to the vastness of the stellar catalogue.

Where it is and when to see it

HIP 32366 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: 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 32366

Constellation: Canis Major
Apparent magnitude: 5.92
Distance: 79.5 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 101.346° · Dec -31.794°
Catalogue: HIP 32366 · HD 49095

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Other stars in Canis Major

Canis Major has 90 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.

See all 90 stars in Canis Major