Star profile
HIP 35083
Hot blue starWhat is HIP 35083
In Canis Major burns a blue-white B-class sun, young and fierce. Its light set out more than six hundred years ago, when Gutenberg was building his printing press and human knowledge was about to multiply. Far hotter and more luminous than the Sun, this azure flame speaks of the primal fire of massive stars —short-lived and dazzling in their passage.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 35083 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, when it culminates around midnight.
- From London it culminates about 8° above the horizon.
- From New York it culminates about 19° above the horizon.
- From Sydney it culminates about 87° above the horizon.
It can be seen from anywhere south of 59° N.
It ranks no. 42 in brightness among the 90 stars of Canis Major in our catalogue. To find it, start from Sirius, the brightest: it lies about 16° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 630 years ago.
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Astronomical data for HIP 35083
- Constellation
- Canis Major
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.36
- Distance
- 628.5 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 108.838° · Dec -30.686°
- Catalogue
- HIP 35083 · HD 56342
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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 354275.29
- HIP 324115.30
- HIP 359575.35
- HIP 358485.37
- HIP 326775.39