Star profile
HIP 40077
Hot blue starWhat is HIP 40077
In the sails of the Argo, the constellation of Vela, blazes a young blue B-type star whose light has been on its way for more than eight centuries. It set out when Christian and Muslim kingdoms were disputing the Iberian peninsula and the first European universities, in Bologna and Paris, were formalizing their faculties. Very hot and far more massive than the Sun, it is a blue-white incandescence that burns in haste. Its glow is a medieval flame still traveling, indifferent to the centuries that have passed beneath it.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 40077 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 40077
- Constellation
- Vela
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.83
- Distance
- 842.9 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 122.795° · Dec -48.462°
- Catalogue
- HIP 40077 · HD 68657
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Other stars in Vela
Vela has 127 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- Gamma 2 Velorum1.75
- AlsephinaDelta Velorum1.93
- SuhailLambda Velorum2.23
- HIP 504935.80
- HIP 537625.81
- HIP 416215.82
- HIP 456755.83
- HIP 453145.85