Star profile
HIP 33929
Variable starWhat is HIP 33929
A red variable on the flank of Gemini, 805 light-years away. M-type stars at this distance and variability tend to be pulsating giants —bloated monsters changing size like a cosmic lung. Its light left when Marco Polo was returning from China and publishing in Genoa the account that would open the European imagination to the East.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 33929 lies in the northern 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 33929
- Constellation
- Gemini
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.96
- Distance
- 805.4 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 105.606° · Dec 17.756°
- Catalogue
- HIP 33929 · HD 52554
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Other stars in Gemini
Gemini has 74 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- PolluxBeta Geminorum1.16
- CastorAlpha Geminorum1.58
- AlhenaGamma Geminorum1.93
- HIP 374285.93
- HIP 343585.94
- 61 Geminorum5.94
- HIP 318765.99
- 44 Geminorum6.00