Star profile
HIP 40889
Cool red starWhat is HIP 40889
A cool red M-type giant in Ursa Major, distant and silent. Its light began its journey around the year 1215, the very year King John of England signed the Magna Carta at Runnymede, a founding piece of modern constitutionalism. Its deep reddish tone is the signature of an aged star that has exhausted its central hydrogen and now burns with the slowness of a prolonged cosmic dusk.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 40889 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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Astronomical data for HIP 40889
- Constellation
- Ursa Major
- Apparent magnitude
- 6.00
- Distance
- 811.4 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 125.168° · Dec 72.407°
- Catalogue
- HIP 40889 · HD 68951
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