Star profile
HIP 40183
Hot blue starWhat is HIP 40183
It burns as a blue B-type flame in Vela, a fragment of the ancient Argo divided by eighteenth-century astronomers. Its light took some 1,046 years to arrive: it set out around the year 980, when the Christian kingdoms of the northern Iberian peninsula were consolidating their frontier and the Song dynasty was organising China. That blue marks a very hot star with a relatively brief stellar life. On the sails of the mythic ship, it holds a blazing and deep post.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 40183 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 40183
- Constellation
- Vela
- Apparent magnitude
- 6.00
- Distance
- 1045.5 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 123.128° · Dec -46.264°
- Catalogue
- HIP 40183 · HD 68895
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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 504805.97
- HIP 416745.98
- HIP 498445.98
- HIP 475595.99
- HIP 433926.00