Star profile
HIP 38500
Hot blue starWhat is HIP 38500
A deep, almost electric blue marks this class B star perched in Puppis. Its surface burns at temperatures several times hotter than the Sun, and the light arriving now left around 1267, when Thomas Aquinas was completing the Summa Theologiae and the Christian kingdoms were advancing across the Iberian peninsula. A vast conceptual ocean separates that medieval world from this glow, drifting through the centuries before reaching our eyes.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 38500 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 never rises above the horizon.
- From Sydney it culminates about 74° above the horizon.
It can be seen from anywhere south of 40° N.
It ranks no. 28 in brightness among the 145 stars of Puppis in our catalogue. To find it, start from Naos, the brightest: it lies about 10° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 760 years ago.
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Astronomical data for HIP 38500
- Constellation
- Puppis
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.63
- Distance
- 758.6 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 118.265° · Dec -49.613°
- Catalogue
- HIP 38500 · HD 64740
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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 370964.53
- HIP 390954.61
- 1 Puppis4.63
- HIP 353634.65
- HIP 365144.65