Star profile

HIP 41325

3D likeness based on its real data · class G · ~5,500 K

What is HIP 41325

In Cancer, that discreet zodiacal constellation, this yellow G-type star shines at nearly four hundred light-years. Its light departed around 1631, the year Pierre Gassendi observed for the first time a transit of Mercury across the Sun —the earliest visual confirmation of Kepler's predictions—. Cooler and older than many of its neighbours, it belongs to that category of stars to which the sky has granted no name.

Where it is and when to see it

HIP 41325 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 41325

Constellation: Cancer
Apparent magnitude: 5.13
Distance: 394.9 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 126.478° · Dec 7.565°
Catalogue: HIP 41325 · HD 71115

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Other stars in Cancer

Cancer has 49 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.

See all 49 stars in Cancer