Star profile
HIP 35611
Variable starWhat is HIP 35611
In Canis Major, where Sirius blazes with its close brilliance, hides this B-class blue variable at nearly two thousand five hundred light-years. Its light departed around the year 460 BCE, in the Athens of Pericles, when Phidias was directing the works of the Parthenon. Hot, massive and shifting in brightness, it crosses the southern firmament like a slow heartbeat inherited from classical antiquity.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 35611 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 35611
- Constellation
- Canis Major
- Apparent magnitude
- 6.00
- Distance
- 2490.1 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 110.229° · Dec -26.964°
- Catalogue
- HIP 35611 · HD 57593
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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 315995.95
- HIP 297715.97
- HIP 296925.99
- HIP 349145.99
- HIP 345616.00