Star profile
HIP 40945
What is HIP 40945
Orange, deep, burning in the hull of Puppis, this K-class giant tints the southern winter sky with copper. Its light has travelled 1007 years: when it left, the knights of the First Crusade had just taken Jerusalem and Europe was beginning to dream of the East. The star knows nothing of that —it simply burns with the stubborn calm of old suns.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 40945 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, when it culminates around midnight.
- From London it culminates about 5° above the horizon.
- From New York it culminates about 16° above the horizon.
- From Sydney it culminates about 89° above the horizon.
It can be seen from anywhere south of 57° N.
It ranks no. 41 in brightness among the 145 stars of Puppis in our catalogue. To find it, start from Naos, the brightest: it lies about 8° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 1,000 years ago.
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Astronomical data for HIP 40945
- Constellation
- Puppis
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.83
- Distance
- 1006.8 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 125.346° · Dec -33.054°
- Catalogue
- HIP 40945 · HD 70555
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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 402744.78
- HIP 367734.82
- HIP 344954.83
- HIP 372974.84
- HIP 364314.85