Star profile
HIP 36055
What is HIP 36055
Monoceros —the Unicorn, a dim constellation without bright stars but crossed by the Milky Way— holds this white A-type 1213 light-years away. Its light departed around the year 813, when the Carolingian Empire had just been formed and Charlemagne had died barely a year before. A medieval light, still intact, arriving tonight from the very origin of Europe.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 36055 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 36055
- Constellation
- Monoceros
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.98
- Distance
- 1212.6 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 111.463° · Dec -5.775°
- Catalogue
- HIP 36055 · HD 58526
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Other stars in Monoceros
Monoceros has 71 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- Beta Monocerotis3.76
- Alpha Monocerotis3.94
- Gamma Monocerotis3.99
- HIP 337295.95
- HIP 351275.95
- HIP 336035.96
- HIP 340025.96
- HIP 297115.99