Star profile
HIP 39360
Variable starWhat is HIP 39360
About 480 light years away, in the rich constellation of Puppis, a variable white A-type star fluctuates subtly in brightness. Its light departed around 1546, when Tycho Brahe had just been born and European astronomy was about to refine its measurements as never before. Hotter than the Sun and of a pristine white, it reflects in its spectrum the dominance of absorbing hydrogen. Puppis, one of the pieces into which the old ship Argo was divided, lends it a sky loaded with southern nebulae and clusters.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 39360 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 39360
- Constellation
- Puppis
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.52
- Distance
- 479.7 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 120.687° · Dec -41.310°
- Catalogue
- HIP 39360 · HD 66624
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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 413235.45
- 5 Puppis5.48
- HIP 385935.48
- HIP 413955.52
- 18 Puppis5.53