Star profile
Gamma 1 Volans
What is Gamma 1 Volans
Gamma-1 Volantis shines at one hundred and sixty-two light-years in the Flying Fish, a southern constellation conceived by Dutch navigators who watched, from their ships, fish leaping out of tropical waters. It is a yellow-white F-type star, slightly hotter than the Sun, and forms a visual system with Gamma-2 just a few arcseconds away: a delicate pair in a little-travelled sky.
Where it is and when to see it
Gamma 1 Volans lies in the southern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is April, when it culminates around midnight.
- From London it never rises above the horizon.
- From New York it never rises above the horizon.
- From Sydney it never sets and culminates about 53° up.
It can be seen from anywhere south of 20° N.
It ranks no. 16 in brightness among the 19 stars of Volans in our catalogue. To find it, start from Beta Volans, the brightest: it lies about 8° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 160 years ago.
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Astronomical data for Gamma 1 Volans
- Constellation
- Volans
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.68
- Distance
- 162.0 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 107.176° · Dec -70.497°
- Catalogue
- HIP 34473 · HD 55864
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Other stars in Volans
Volans has 19 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- Beta Volans3.77
- Gamma 2 Volans3.78
- Zeta Volans3.93
- Iota Volans5.41
- HIP 414515.51
- Kappa 2 Volans5.63
- HIP 382105.78
- HIP 442835.89