Star profile
HIP 34000
Variable starWhat is HIP 34000
Carina is one of the richest regions of the southern sky, sown with young clusters and glowing nebulae. There shines this blue-white star — a hot sun whose intensity shifts periodically, like a subtle heartbeat. Its light took about 494 years to arrive: it set out just as Magellan and Elcano completed the first circumnavigation of the globe, and ocean cartography began to be planetary. Today that luminous pulse, reaching us from the deep southern sky, recalls voyages that once seemed impossible.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 34000 lies in the southern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is February: 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 34000
- Constellation
- Carina
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.50
- Distance
- 493.5 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 105.813° · Dec -59.178°
- Catalogue
- HIP 34000 · HD 53921
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Other stars in Carina
Carina has 124 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- CanopusAlpha Carinae-0.62
- MiaplacidusBeta Carinae1.67
- AviorEpsilon Carinae1.86
- HIP 463585.46
- HIP 467415.46
- HIP 520045.47
- HIP 355645.50
- HIP 522215.51