Star profile
HIP 32439
What is HIP 32439
Just 58 light-years away, in the discreet celestial giraffe —Camelopardalis— pulses a yellow-white F-type star. Its light departed around 1968, as Apollo missions were rehearsing the maneuvers that would carry humans to the Moon barely a year later. It is one of the catalog’s genuinely nearby suns: the photons reaching a telescope tonight shared their era with the first lunar landing.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 32439 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, when it culminates around midnight.
- From London it never sets and culminates about 62° up.
- From New York it never sets and culminates about 51° up.
- From Sydney it never rises above the horizon.
It can be seen from anywhere north of 10° S.
It ranks no. 42 in brightness among the 75 stars of Camelopardalis in our catalogue. To find it, start from Beta Camelopardalis, the brightest: it lies about 21° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 58 years ago.
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Astronomical data for HIP 32439
- Constellation
- Camelopardalis
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.44
- Distance
- 58.3 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 101.560° · Dec 79.565°
- Catalogue
- HIP 32439 · HD 46588
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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 203765.40
- 17 Camelopardalis5.43
- HIP 242545.44
- HIP 226265.47
- 5 Camelopardalis5.52