Star profile
HIP 38160
What is HIP 38160
In southern Carina shines a yellow-white star about 113 light-years away. Its light set out around 1913, on the eve of the First World War, when Europe was living its final certainties before the cataclysm. A bit hotter and brighter than the Sun, it offers a calm white point on the hull of the celestial ship that forever sails the southern skies.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 38160 lies in the southern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is March: 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 38160
- Constellation
- Carina
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.78
- Distance
- 112.8 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 117.304° · Dec -60.284°
- Catalogue
- HIP 38160 · HD 64185
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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 548295.74
- HIP 389945.77
- HIP 462255.77
- HIP 436695.78
- HIP 483395.79