Star profile
HIP 36942
What is HIP 36942
In the heart of Carina, an orange giant glows with the warmth of a furnace slowly cooling. Its light departed around 1633, the same year Galileo was summoned to Rome for defending that the Earth turned around the Sun. Cooler yet far larger than our star, it has already exhausted the hydrogen in its core and drifts toward the great endings of the cosmos.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 36942 lies in the southern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is February: 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 36942
- Constellation
- Carina
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.93
- Distance
- 392.5 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 113.915° · Dec -52.534°
- Catalogue
- HIP 36942 · HD 61248
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Other stars in Carina
Carina has 124 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- CanopusAlpha Carinae-0.62
- MiaplacidusBeta Carinae1.67
- AviorEpsilon Carinae1.86
- HIP 391384.81
- HIP 421344.84
- HIP 527364.87
- HIP 439374.93
- HIP 514954.94