Star profile
HIP 41260
What is HIP 41260
In the starry waters of Puppis shines an orange K-class giant, set some four hundred and sixty-eight light-years away. Its coppery light departed as, in the heart of the Spanish Golden Age, Velázquez was painting in Madrid and Galileo had only just turned his spyglass toward Jupiter's moons. It is one of those stars that have left the calm of their youth to swell into slow giants, far larger than the Sun though cooler at the surface.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 41260 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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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 41260
- Constellation
- Puppis
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.32
- Distance
- 468.0 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 126.266° · Dec -24.046°
- Catalogue
- HIP 41260 · HD 71176
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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 309535.28
- HIP 348025.30
- HIP 381465.32
- HIP 397345.33
- HIP 378535.36