Star profile
HIP 44248
What is HIP 44248
In the quiet constellation of Lynx, this yellow-white F-type sun burns with a clean light, hotter than our own. Its glow travels 52 years to reach us —it set out when the Beatles topped the charts and humans had not yet walked on the Moon—. It belongs to that small group of modest luminaries that reward the patient observer under dark skies, where the mythical lynx blends into the northern sky.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 44248 lies in the northern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is January, when it culminates around midnight.
- From London it never sets and culminates about 80° up.
- From New York it culminates about 89° above the horizon.
- From Sydney it culminates about 14° above the horizon.
It can be seen from anywhere north of 48° S.
It ranks no. 3 in brightness among the 60 stars of Lynx in our catalogue. To find it, start from Alpha Lynx, the brightest: it lies about 8° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 52 years ago.
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Astronomical data for HIP 44248
- Constellation
- Lynx
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.96
- Distance
- 52.4 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 135.160° · Dec 41.783°
- Catalogue
- HIP 44248 · HD 76943
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Other stars in Lynx
Lynx has 60 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
See all 60 stars in Lynx