Star profile
HIP 42001
Hot blue starWhat is HIP 42001
In southern Vela burns this blue B-type star at 834 light-years. Its light set out around the year 1192, when Saladin and Richard the Lionheart agreed to a truce in the Holy Land at the close of the Third Crusade. It is a blue-white furnace far hotter than the Sun, a luminous fragment of the ancient ship Argo, dismantled by modern astronomers.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 42001 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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Astronomical data for HIP 42001
- Constellation
- Vela
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.92
- Distance
- 834.3 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 128.410° · Dec -38.849°
- Catalogue
- HIP 42001 · HD 72832
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Other stars in Vela
Vela has 127 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- Gamma 2 Velorum1.75
- AlsephinaDelta Velorum1.93
- SuhailLambda Velorum2.23
- HIP 426145.90
- HIP 535305.90
- HIP 516105.91
- HIP 435895.92
- HIP 452705.92