Star profile
HIP 37364
What is HIP 37364
About 622 light years away, in the rich southern Puppis, an orange K-type star shines amid a dense sea of stars. Its light departed around 1404, when the Medici were beginning to consolidate their power in Florence and the Italian Renaissance was taking root. Cooler than the Sun and bathed in a warm glow, it shares its family with many orange giants that fill the southern skies. Puppis, once part of the great Argo, lends it a stage full of open clusters and nebulae, one of the most fertile regions of the firmament.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 37364 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 37364
- Constellation
- Puppis
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.92
- Distance
- 622.5 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 115.056° · Dec -19.661°
- Catalogue
- HIP 37364 · HD 61774
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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 361435.90
- HIP 379955.90
- HIP 392515.90
- HIP 287905.93
- HIP 329385.94