Star profile
HIP 40305
What is HIP 40305
In Lynx, that elusive constellation named for its discretion, shines a yellow G-type star some 574 light-years away —a faraway Sun. Its light set out when Constantinople fell to the Ottomans in 1453 and the European Renaissance was finding its epicentre in Florence. It is a star kindred to our own but far more distant, a golden flame barely perceptible to those who know how to look between the invisible folds of the celestial lynx.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 40305 lies in the northern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is January: 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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A public signature from a real person. The chosen name is a symbolic denomination within Stelvia, with no official standing or IAU recognition: the sky is not for sale and belongs to no one.
Astronomical data for HIP 40305
- Constellation
- Lynx
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.88
- Distance
- 574.3 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 123.459° · Dec 56.452°
- Catalogue
- HIP 40305 · HD 68077
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Other stars in Lynx
Lynx has 60 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
See all 60 stars in Lynx