Star profile
HIP 33937
Cool red starWhat is HIP 33937
In Gemini, the eternal twins of the sky, pulses a red M-type giant more than two thousand five hundred light-years away. Its light set out toward the sixth century BC, when the pre-Socratics were beginning to seek the principle of all things and the Greek city-states were taking shape. Far cooler than the Sun yet enormously extended, its crimson ember is an echo of a pre-philosophical world still burning between the celestial brothers.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 33937 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 33937
- Constellation
- Gemini
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.86
- Distance
- 2509.2 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 105.639° · Dec 16.674°
- Catalogue
- HIP 33937 · HD 52609
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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
- 5 Geminorum5.83
- 52 Geminorum5.84
- 48 Geminorum5.85
- 33 Geminorum5.87
- HIP 334215.91