Star profile
HIP 42286
What is HIP 42286
Beneath the southern keel of Carina burns an orange K-type star. Its light departed three hundred and thirty-eight years ago, when Edmund Halley was urging Newton to write the «Principia» and science was taking a decisive turn. Cooler than the Sun, its glow arrives coppery and composed, like a lantern lit in the crow's nest of a vanished sail. To see it tonight is to lean over the dawn of modern physics.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 42286 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 42286
- Constellation
- Carina
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.45
- Distance
- 338.0 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 129.328° · Dec -62.853°
- Catalogue
- HIP 42286 · HD 73887
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Other stars in Carina
Carina has 124 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- CanopusAlpha Carinae-0.62
- MiaplacidusBeta Carinae1.67
- AviorEpsilon Carinae1.86
- HIP 355895.38
- HIP 455715.38
- HIP 324945.39
- HIP 463585.46
- HIP 467415.46