Star profile
HIP 36431
Highly luminous starWhat is HIP 36431
More than three thousand years have passed while the photons of this luminous white beacon in Puppis travelled toward human telescopes. When they set out, around the eleventh century before our era, the Phoenicians were spreading their alphabet across the Mediterranean and David's kingdom was flourishing in Jerusalem. The class A star shines far more intensely than the Sun; its light crosses distances in which civilisations are born, grow and vanish without altering its course.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 36431 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, when it culminates around midnight.
- From London it culminates about 15° above the horizon.
- From New York it culminates about 26° above the horizon.
- From Sydney it culminates about 79° above the horizon.
It can be seen from anywhere south of 67° N.
It ranks no. 43 in brightness among the 145 stars of Puppis in our catalogue. To find it, start from Naos, the brightest: it lies about 18° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 3,100 years ago.
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Astronomical data for HIP 36431
- Constellation
- Puppis
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.85
- Distance
- 3106.7 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 112.464° · Dec -23.024°
- Catalogue
- HIP 36431 · HD 59612
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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 344954.83
- HIP 409454.83
- HIP 372974.84
- HIP 348994.87
- HIP 340594.92