Star profile
HIP 44897
What is HIP 44897
In Lynx shines a yellow-white F-type star sixty-three light years away, an almost close neighbor. Its light set out in the nineteen-sixties, when the first European satellites were already orbiting Earth and radio astronomy was discovering pulsars and previously unseen galaxies. Slightly hotter and more luminous than the Sun, it is an elder sister whose disk burns with a barely golden white. The constellation, elusive even to the naked eye, suits the discreet character of this nearby, silent star well.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 44897 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: 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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A public signature from a real person. The chosen name is a symbolic denomination within Stelvia, with no official standing or IAU recognition: the sky is not for sale and belongs to no one.
Astronomical data for HIP 44897
- Constellation
- Lynx
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.95
- Distance
- 62.6 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 137.213° · Dec 33.882°
- Catalogue
- HIP 44897 · HD 78366
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Other stars in Lynx
Lynx has 60 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- Alpha Lynx3.14
- 38 Lynx3.82
- HIP 442483.96
- HIP 371405.93
- 8 Lynx5.94
- HIP 456615.94
- HIP 435535.96
- HIP 435505.98