Star profile
HIP 43669
Hot blue starWhat is HIP 43669
Beneath the Keel of the Argo burns a blue giant whose light took 1,437 years to reach us. When it left, the Western Roman Empire had just collapsed and barbarian kingdoms were redrawing the map of Europe. A class-B sun —blue-white, several times hotter and thousands of times more luminous than ours—, it embodies that furious stellar youth that scarcely lasts a few tens of millions of years.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 43669 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 43669
- Constellation
- Carina
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.78
- Distance
- 1437.0 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 133.453° · Dec -60.354°
- Catalogue
- HIP 43669 · HD 76538
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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 389945.77
- HIP 462255.77
- HIP 381605.78
- HIP 483395.79
- HIP 442565.80