Star profile
HIP 38210
Hot blue starWhat is HIP 38210
It shines in Volans, the flying fish, a southern constellation imagined in the 16th century by navigators crossing the Indian Ocean. A fierce blue B-type star, far hotter than the Sun —its surface exceeding 15,000 degrees. Its light set out some 492 years ago, when Hernán Cortés and the conquistadors were entering Tenochtitlán. A young, violent beacon in the deep southern skies.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 38210 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 38210
- Constellation
- Volans
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.78
- Distance
- 492.0 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 117.421° · Dec -66.196°
- Catalogue
- HIP 38210 · HD 64484
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Other stars in Volans
Volans has 19 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- Beta Volans3.77
- Gamma 2 Volans3.78
- Zeta Volans3.93
- HIP 414515.51
- Kappa 2 Volans5.63
- Gamma 1 Volans5.68
- HIP 442835.89
- HIP 413215.95