Star profile
HIP 36778
Variable starWhat is HIP 36778
In the Stern of the ancient celestial ship glows a blue star of oscillating light whose signal set out nearly twelve hundred years ago, when Charlemagne was crowning a short-lived empire. It pulses with a slow rhythm, almost a cosmic breathing, which places it among the observable variables. It is a hot giant, far more luminous than the Sun, able to remain visible across such a distance under clean skies. Its shifting brightness reminds us that even stars have inner seasons.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 36778 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 36778
- Constellation
- Puppis
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.42
- Distance
- 1186.2 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 113.463° · Dec -36.338°
- Catalogue
- HIP 36778 · HD 60606
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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 388465.36
- HIP 363635.41
- HIP 374505.41
- HIP 384975.44
- HIP 413235.45