Star profile
HIP 39184
Hot blue starWhat is HIP 39184
In Carina, the ancient hull of the ship Argo, a hot blue B-type shines some seven hundred and sixty-seven light years away. The light observed today set off around the year 1258, when the Mongols were sacking Baghdad and the Abbasid caliphate was collapsing. Its spectral class places it among the massive young stars, common in the galactic plane crossed by this southern constellation.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 39184 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 39184
- Constellation
- Carina
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.87
- Distance
- 767.5 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 120.208° · Dec -54.151°
- Catalogue
- HIP 39184 · HD 66441
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Other stars in Carina
Carina has 124 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- CanopusAlpha Carinae-0.62
- MiaplacidusBeta Carinae1.67
- AviorEpsilon Carinae1.86
- HIP 529225.85
- HIP 455855.86
- HIP 364445.87
- HIP 466205.88
- HIP 520435.89