Star profile
HIP 38164
Hot blue starWhat is HIP 38164
In the Stern of the ancient Argo Navis, this blue B-type giant burns 1,647 light years away, a light that set out when the Normans were conquering southern Italy. Its magnitude 4.1 glow crosses the southern skies with the electric chill of the hottest stellar furnaces. It belongs to that lineage of stars that live fast and consume their hydrogen in a fraction of the time the Sun will take to age.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 38164 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, when it culminates around midnight.
- From London it never rises above the horizon.
- From New York it culminates about 3° above the horizon.
- From Sydney it culminates about 78° above the horizon.
It can be seen from anywhere south of 44° N.
It ranks no. 12 in brightness among the 145 stars of Puppis in our catalogue. To find it, start from Naos, the brightest: it lies about 7° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 1,600 years ago.
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Astronomical data for HIP 38164
- Constellation
- Puppis
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.10
- Distance
- 1647.5 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 117.310° · Dec -46.373°
- Catalogue
- HIP 38164 · HD 63922
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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 384143.71
- HIP 372293.80
- 3 Puppis3.94
- 11 Puppis4.20
- HIP 385184.22