Star profile
HIP 36236
Hot blue starWhat is HIP 36236
Hot and blue on the stern of Puppis, 965 light years away. The light brushing the southern sky tonight set off around the year 1061, when the Tower of Pisa was being erected, still straight — its lean would come later, with the centuries. Hot-blue by temperature: a B-class star whose surface burns with cutting brilliance even after a journey of nearly a millennium.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 36236 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 36236
- Constellation
- Puppis
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.98
- Distance
- 965.1 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 111.929° · Dec -22.859°
- Catalogue
- HIP 36236 · HD 59136
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Other stars in Puppis
Puppis has 145 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- NaosZeta Puppis2.21
- Pi Puppis2.71
- TureisRho Puppis2.83
- HIP 406935.95
- HIP 413285.96
- HIP 412505.97
- HIP 390145.98
- HIP 373455.99