Star profile
HIP 37428
What is HIP 37428
Gemini is a familiar constellation of the northern winter sky, dominated by the twins Castor and Pollux, sons of Zeus in mythology. Far from them, in less travelled parts of the figure, glows this orange star — cold and very distant: its light took about 1524 years to reach us. It set out when the Western Roman Empire had just collapsed and the Germanic kingdoms — Ostrogoths, Visigoths, Franks — were redrawing the European map. That orange light has been travelling for fifteen centuries now, oblivious to all the change it has unwittingly witnessed.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 37428 lies in the northern 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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A public signature from a real person. The chosen name is a symbolic denomination within Stelvia, with no official standing or IAU recognition: the sky is not for sale and belongs to no one.
Astronomical data for HIP 37428
- Constellation
- Gemini
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.93
- Distance
- 1524.3 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 115.244° · Dec 23.019°
- Catalogue
- HIP 37428 · HD 61603
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Other stars in Gemini
Gemini has 74 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- PolluxBeta Geminorum1.16
- CastorAlpha Geminorum1.58
- AlhenaGamma Geminorum1.93
- HIP 334215.91
- HIP 291965.93
- HIP 340175.93
- HIP 343585.94
- 61 Geminorum5.94