Star profile
HIP 34834
Variable starWhat is HIP 34834
Within the Stern of the great Ship, a yellow-white F-type flame breathes with a soft pulse that astronomy has learned to measure. Its light takes nearly seventy years to cross the void —about the span between us and the first footprint on the Moon—. Hotter and more luminous than the Sun, its glow rises and falls like a patient heart, without flourish.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 34834 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 34834
- Constellation
- Puppis
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.49
- Distance
- 69.9 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 108.140° · Dec -46.759°
- Catalogue
- HIP 34834 · HD 55892
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Other stars in Puppis
Puppis has 145 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- NaosZeta Puppis2.21
- Pi Puppis2.71
- TureisRho Puppis2.83
- HIP 400914.44
- HIP 407064.44
- HIP 389574.47
- HIP 384554.49
- HIP 370964.53