Star profile
HIP 36547
Variable starWhat is HIP 36547
In Camelopardalis, a late and little-known constellation, beats a variable red giant of M type. Its light set out almost five hundred years ago, when Copernicus shook cosmology and published that the Earth orbited the Sun. Far cooler and far larger than our daytime star, it pulses slowly, shifting in brightness: it breathes, as old titans do near the end of life. Barely visible to the naked eye, it is a crimson ember throbbing in one of the most forgotten corners of the northern sky.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 36547 lies in the northern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is December, when it culminates around midnight.
- From London it never sets and culminates about 59° up.
- From New York it never sets and culminates about 48° up.
- From Sydney it never rises above the horizon.
It can be seen from anywhere north of 8° S.
It ranks no. 12 in brightness among the 75 stars of Camelopardalis in our catalogue. To find it, start from Beta Camelopardalis, the brightest: it lies about 24° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 500 years ago.
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Astronomical data for HIP 36547
- Constellation
- Camelopardalis
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.92
- Distance
- 499.5 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 112.769° · Dec 82.411°
- Catalogue
- HIP 36547 · HD 55966
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Other stars in Camelopardalis
Camelopardalis has 75 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- Beta Camelopardalis4.03
- HIP 162284.21
- Alpha Camelopardalis4.26
- HIP 155204.74
- HIP 299974.76
- HIP 175874.78
- HIP 185054.95
- HIP 184884.99