Star profile
HIP 41080
Cool red starWhat is HIP 41080
Along the long body of Hydra, the serpent that coils across nearly a quarter of the sky, pulses a red M-type giant, cool and vast, far older and more swollen than the Sun. Its light set out around 1,289 years ago, when the Carolingians were reorganising western Europe and Abbasid astronomers were translating Aristarchus into Arabic. It arrives now stained with the deep red of suns already entering the twilight of their existence.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 41080 lies in the southern 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 41080
- Constellation
- Hydra
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.92
- Distance
- 1289.3 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 125.725° · Dec -7.543°
- Catalogue
- HIP 41080 · HD 70652
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Other stars in Hydra
Hydra has 121 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- AlphardAlpha Hydrae1.99
- Gamma Hydrae2.99
- Zeta Hydrae3.11
- HIP 528415.87
- HIP 699655.87
- HIP 420085.89
- HIP 468975.92
- HIP 581585.93