Star profile
HIP 33575
Hot blue starWhat is HIP 33575
From Canis Major, Orion's faithful guardian, comes the light of a blue B-type star located about 863 light years away. That light set out around the year 1163, in the heart of the Middle Ages, when work was beginning on the cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris. Far hotter and more massive than the Sun, it belongs to that category of young stars able to light entire regions around them. Its bluish-white glow is camouflaged amid the overwhelming brilliance of Sirius, the most famous pearl of the celestial pack.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 33575 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 33575
- Constellation
- Canis Major
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.59
- Distance
- 863.0 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 104.650° · Dec -25.414°
- Catalogue
- HIP 33575 · HD 52018
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Other stars in Canis Major
Canis Major has 90 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- SiriusAlpha Canis Majoris-1.44
- AdharaEpsilon Canis Majoris1.50
- WezenDelta Canis Majoris1.83
- HIP 302145.48
- HIP 299415.51
- HIP 350445.58
- HIP 356155.59
- HIP 361865.60