Star profile
HIP 4346
What is HIP 4346
Cetus stretches, enormous, across the northern autumn sky, occupying a vast celestial band at low latitudes. There glows this orange sun — cold and generously surfaced — whose light took about 602 years to arrive. It set out when Gutenberg was beginning to assemble his movable-type press in Mainz, unaware that the machine would forever change how knowledge circulated in the world. That orange light, reaching us from so far back in time, seems to carry something of that threshold between two human ages.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 4346 lies in the southern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is October, when it culminates around midnight.
- From London it culminates about 31° above the horizon.
- From New York it culminates about 42° above the horizon.
- From Sydney it culminates about 63° above the horizon.
It can be seen from anywhere south of 83° N.
It ranks no. 94 in brightness among the 111 stars of Cetus in our catalogue. To find it, start from Diphda, the brightest: it lies about 11° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 600 years ago.
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Astronomical data for HIP 4346
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.88
- Distance
- 601.8 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 13.927° · Dec -7.347°
- Catalogue
- HIP 4346 · HD 5384
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Other stars in Cetus
Cetus has 111 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- DiphdaBeta Ceti2.04
- MenkarAlpha Ceti2.54
- Eta Ceti3.46
- 42 Ceti5.87
- HIP 95725.87
- HIP 113485.88
- HIP 110335.89
- HIP 113815.89