Star profile
HIP 44626
Variable starWhat is HIP 44626
Anchored in the Keel of the great ship Argo, this blue B-type giant pulses with subtle variability, restless and powerful. Its light travelled almost a thousand years: it left when the University of Bologna was being founded and the Normans were crossing southern Italy. It burns far hotter than the Sun and shines with a luminosity our yellow dwarf could never dream of. To see it is to lean over the late Middle Ages, when Arabic astrolabes still guided Mediterranean sailors.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 44626 lies in the southern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is April: 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 44626
- Constellation
- Carina
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.66
- Distance
- 968.0 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 136.410° · Dec -70.538°
- Catalogue
- HIP 44626 · HD 78764
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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 547514.59
- HIP 543014.62
- HIP 511924.65
- HIP 521024.69
- HIP 514384.72