Star profile
HIP 41321
What is HIP 41321
In Volans, the flying fish, a southern constellation born in 17th-century Dutch maps, shines this yellow G-type star, spectral sister to the Sun but far more distant. Its light set out 367 years ago, around 1657, when Christiaan Huygens was building the first pendulum clock in The Hague and revolutionizing the measurement of time. Its golden glow evokes a distant Sun seen from another bend of the cosmos, a familiar light dissolved into unimaginable kilometers.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 41321 lies in the southern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is March: 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 41321
- Constellation
- Volans
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.95
- Distance
- 366.5 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 126.465° · Dec -64.601°
- Catalogue
- HIP 41321 · HD 71863
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Other stars in Volans
Volans has 19 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- Beta Volans3.77
- Gamma 2 Volans3.78
- Zeta Volans3.93
- HIP 414515.51
- Kappa 2 Volans5.63
- Gamma 1 Volans5.68
- HIP 382105.78
- HIP 442835.89