Star profile
HIP 34002
What is HIP 34002
An A-type white in the quiet Monoceros, some 332 light-years away. Its light set off when Louis XIV was inaugurating the palace of Versailles and Baroque Europe was measuring the sky with pendulums and violins. Clean and restrained, it cuts across the boreal winter like a silver pin driven between the stars of the Unicorn.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 34002 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 34002
- Constellation
- Monoceros
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.96
- Distance
- 332.5 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 105.825° · Dec 9.138°
- Catalogue
- HIP 34002 · HD 52913
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Other stars in Monoceros
Monoceros has 71 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- Beta Monocerotis3.76
- Alpha Monocerotis3.94
- Gamma Monocerotis3.99
- HIP 337295.95
- HIP 351275.95
- HIP 336035.96
- HIP 360555.98
- HIP 297115.99