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, when it culminates around midnight.
- From London it never rises above the horizon.
- From New York it never rises above the horizon.
- From Sydney it never sets and culminates about 51° up.
It can be seen from anywhere south of 17° N.
It ranks no. 25 in brightness among the 124 stars of Carina in our catalogue. To find it, start from Canopus, the brightest: it lies about 26° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 400 years ago.
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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