Star profile

HIP 34033

3D likeness based on its real data · class K · ~4,200 K

What is HIP 34033

Among the Twins shines an orange K-class giant whose tepid light travelled nearly six hundred years before reaching us. When that glow left its atmosphere, Constantinople had just fallen and the Italian Renaissance was drawing breath as Portuguese ships felt their way along the African coast. It belongs to those aged giants, far broader than the Sun, that no longer fuse hydrogen in their core and have become patient beacons of the winter sky.

Where it is and when to see it

HIP 34033 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, when it culminates around midnight.

From London it culminates about 49° above the horizon.
From New York it culminates about 60° above the horizon.
From Sydney it culminates about 45° above the horizon.

It can be seen from anywhere north of 79° S.

It ranks no. 33 in brightness among the 74 stars of Gemini in our catalogue. To find it, start from Pollux, the brightest: it lies about 20° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).

The light you see today left it about 590 years ago.

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Astronomical data for HIP 34033

Constellation: Gemini
Apparent magnitude: 5.14
Distance: 594.2 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 105.909° · Dec 10.952°
Catalogue: HIP 34033 · HD 52960

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Other stars in Gemini

Gemini has 74 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.

See all 74 stars in Gemini