Star profile
HIP 3521
What is HIP 3521
The southern Phoenix, sketched by Dutch sailors voyaging to the Indies, hosts a white star whose light crossed two hundred and ten years before arriving. It set out before the Lumière brothers were even born, when photography was just taking shape in Parisian workshops. Hotter and more luminous than the Sun, its surface near nine thousand degrees lends it that pearly, almost mineral tone. Like the mythic bird reborn from its ashes, it seems to drift alone in a discreet patch of the southern sky.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 3521 lies in the southern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is September: 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 3521
- Constellation
- Phoenix
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.94
- Distance
- 210.0 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 11.238° · Dec -42.677°
- Catalogue
- HIP 3521 · HD 4293
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Other stars in Phoenix
Phoenix has 39 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- AnkaaAlpha Phoenicis2.40
- Beta Phoenicis3.32
- Gamma Phoenicis3.41
- HIP 35835.80
- HIP 100355.84
- HIP 104405.91
- HIP 85935.94
- HIP 31376.00