Star profile
HIP 44599
What is HIP 44599
Bearing no popular name, this yellow-white F-type star burns in the keel of the ship Argo, deep in Carina. Its light set out around 401 years ago, when Galileo first turned his spyglass toward the moons of Jupiter and rewrote Earths place in the cosmos. Hotter and more luminous than the Sun, it holds a quiet balance between blue youth and golden maturity. Faint to the naked eye and far from famous names, it stays steady in its southern corner.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 44599 lies in the southern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is May: 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 44599
- Constellation
- Carina
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.47
- Distance
- 400.7 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 136.287° · Dec -72.603°
- Catalogue
- HIP 44599 · HD 78791
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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 314074.35
- HIP 327614.41
- HIP 518494.45
- HIP 431054.50
- HIP 473914.51