Star profile
HIP 38455
Variable starWhat is HIP 38455
It shines in Puppis, a fragment of the ancient ship Argo, with the bluish-white blaze proper to B-class stars. Its light set out around 648 years ago, when Europe was stepping into the Renaissance and Florentine workshops were rehearsing a new way of looking at the world. It is a variable that pulses faintly, reminding us that no brilliance ever stays perfectly still. Against the Sun it unfolds a far greater intensity —a southern beacon in a constellation born from the fire of modern astronomers.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 38455 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: 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 38455
- Constellation
- Puppis
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.49
- Distance
- 648.5 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 118.161° · Dec -38.863°
- Catalogue
- HIP 38455 · HD 64503
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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 407064.44
- HIP 389574.47
- HIP 348344.49
- HIP 370964.53
- HIP 390954.61