Star profile
HIP 45571
What is HIP 45571
Little more than a hundred light-years away, a yellow-white F-type star shines in Carina, in the heart of the southern sky. Its light set out around 1920, while Edwin Hubble was preparing to measure cepheids in the Andromeda nebula and prove the universe vast. Today that F-class glow traverses the very cosmos we were only then beginning to name.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 45571 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 45571
- Constellation
- Carina
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.38
- Distance
- 106.5 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 139.322° · Dec -68.690°
- Catalogue
- HIP 45571 · HD 80671
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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 526785.33
- HIP 524055.36
- HIP 355895.38
- HIP 324945.39
- HIP 422865.45