Star profile
HIP 40096
Highly luminous starWhat is HIP 40096
This white star of Puppis does not strictly belong to our neighbourhood: its light reaches us after a journey of more than 326,000 years, when Neanderthals still walked Europe and fire was barely a domestic novelty. So luminous that the naked eye catches it despite the distance, it had already burnt out or transformed while the Roman Empire rose and fell. To look at it is to lean over an echo older than the written word.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 40096 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 40096
- Constellation
- Puppis
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.73
- Distance
- 326200.0 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 122.858° · Dec -42.987°
- Catalogue
- HIP 40096 · HD 68601
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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 371734.69
- HIP 380894.69
- 19 Puppis4.72
- HIP 350204.75
- HIP 389014.76