Star profile
HIP 37508
Cool red starWhat is HIP 37508
A cool red M-class star in Gemini, hidden between the twins. M stars are the most numerous in the universe, and yet almost always the least visible —their warm colours are shy—. At 779 light-years away, its light set out when the samurai of the Hōjō clan were ruling Japan and Europe s earliest universities were debating Aristotelian philosophy. A discreet ember between Castor and Pollux.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 37508 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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Astronomical data for HIP 37508
- Constellation
- Gemini
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.79
- Distance
- 778.5 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 115.466° · Dec 13.480°
- Catalogue
- HIP 37508 · HD 61885
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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
- 53 Geminorum5.75
- 59 Geminorum5.77
- HIP 339145.78
- 5 Geminorum5.83
- 52 Geminorum5.84