Star profile
HIP 36258
Hot blue starWhat is HIP 36258
More than 921 light-years away in the constellation Stern burns a blue type-B star whose light departed in the heart of the Middle Ages, when Gothic cathedrals were rising across Europe. Far more massive, hotter and thousands of times more luminous than the Sun, its surface comfortably exceeds ten thousand degrees. Its bluish hue betrays its youth and its haste: such stars burn briefly in exchange for a disproportionate brilliance. It reaches us as a medieval echo of light.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 36258 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 36258
- Constellation
- Puppis
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.55
- Distance
- 921.5 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 111.997° · Dec -29.156°
- Catalogue
- HIP 36258 · HD 59256
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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 393605.52
- HIP 413955.52
- 18 Puppis5.53
- HIP 340655.56
- HIP 409445.58