Star profile
HIP 35509
What is HIP 35509
Canis Minor, the lesser dog accompanying Orion, holds this yellow-white F-type star some 174 light-years away. Its light set out around 1852, the year Foucault's pendulum had demonstrated Earth's rotation in Paris and the British Empire was laying its first submarine cables. Today that F-class wave reaches our telescopes with no delay at all.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 35509 lies in the northern 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 46° above the horizon.
- From New York it culminates about 56° above the horizon.
- From Sydney it culminates about 49° above the horizon.
It can be seen from anywhere north of 83° S.
It ranks no. 23 in brightness among the 25 stars of Canis Minor in our catalogue. To find it, start from Procyon, the brightest: it lies about 5° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 170 years ago.
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Astronomical data for HIP 35509
- Constellation
- Canis Minor
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.91
- Distance
- 173.9 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 109.949° · Dec 7.143°
- Catalogue
- HIP 35509 · HD 57006
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Other stars in Canis Minor
Canis Minor has 25 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- ProcyonAlpha Canis Minoris0.40
- GomeisaBeta Canis Minoris2.89
- Gamma Canis Minoris4.33
- HIP 387125.86
- HIP 370315.89
- HIP 354765.90
- HIP 374785.95
- HIP 357125.99