Star profile
HIP 43937
Variable starWhat is HIP 43937
On the keel of the celestial ship Carina pulses a blue-white type-B star whose brightness wavers slightly, as though breathing to its own rhythm. It is a body far hotter and more massive than the Sun, a young flame burning in haste in the deep south. Its light reaches us after 674 years of travel, having set off when medieval Europe was harvesting the fruits of the early Renaissance and the shores of America were still unknown. Its flicker is a remote heartbeat that has not yet ended.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 43937 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 43937
- Constellation
- Carina
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.93
- Distance
- 674.0 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 134.243° · Dec -59.229°
- Catalogue
- HIP 43937 · HD 77002
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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 421344.84
- HIP 527364.87
- HIP 369424.93
- HIP 514954.94
- HIP 508474.97