Star profile
HIP 39957
What is HIP 39957
On the keel of Argo, Carina, shines a white A-type star 394 light-years away. Its light set out as Galileo, confined to his villa at Arcetri, finished his Discourses on Two New Sciences. Hotter and more luminous than the Sun, it is one of the southern hemisphere's quiet beacons —only making full sense when one pictures the mythic ship cutting through the seas of the sky.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 39957 lies in the southern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is March: 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 39957
- Constellation
- Carina
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.66
- Distance
- 394.0 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 122.390° · Dec -56.085°
- Catalogue
- HIP 39957 · HD 68434
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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 434995.59
- HIP 325315.60
- HIP 386565.62
- HIP 505205.66
- HIP 384385.70