Star profile
HIP 34301
Variable starWhat is HIP 34301
On the flank of Canis Major burns a blue-white type-B star, far hotter and more powerful than the Sun, whose brightness oscillates over time like a distant lighthouse drawing breath. Its light reaches us after a colossal journey of over 3,000 years, begun when the peoples of the Aegean were shaping the first Greek city-states. It is an ancient, almost mythical flame, still throbbing in the darkness of the southern winter.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 34301 lies in the southern 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 34301
- Constellation
- Canis Major
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.41
- Distance
- 3048.6 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 106.670° · Dec -11.294°
- Catalogue
- HIP 34301 · HD 53974
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Other stars in Canis Major
Canis Major has 90 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- SiriusAlpha Canis Majoris-1.44
- AdharaEpsilon Canis Majoris1.50
- WezenDelta Canis Majoris1.83
- HIP 358485.37
- HIP 326775.39
- HIP 357955.40
- HIP 358555.41
- HIP 334785.45