Star profile
HIP 39095
What is HIP 39095
On the stern of the celestial ship —Puppis— shines a white A-type star, crisp as cold porcelain. Its light departed around 1785, the year Lavoisier was rewriting chemistry by naming oxygen and banishing phlogiston. Two hundred and forty-one years of quiet travel to deliver magnitude 4.61 across the southern sky.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 39095 lies in the southern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is January, when it culminates around midnight.
- From London it culminates about 20° above the horizon.
- From New York it culminates about 31° above the horizon.
- From Sydney it culminates about 74° above the horizon.
It can be seen from anywhere south of 72° N.
It ranks no. 26 in brightness among the 145 stars of Puppis in our catalogue. To find it, start from Naos, the brightest: it lies about 22° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 240 years ago.
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Astronomical data for HIP 39095
- Constellation
- Puppis
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.61
- Distance
- 241.3 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 119.967° · Dec -18.399°
- Catalogue
- HIP 39095 · HD 65810
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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 348344.49
- HIP 384554.49
- HIP 370964.53
- 1 Puppis4.63
- HIP 385004.63