Star profile
HIP 45581
What is HIP 45581
In Carina, the keel of the ancient ship Argo, shines a white A-type star whose light set out around 1675, the year Charles II founded the Royal Observatory at Greenwich. Hotter and more luminous than the Sun, it wears the pure white of stars still living their youth. Its light crossed three and a half centuries to meet the moment in which we now look upon it, cold and exact.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 45581 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 45581
- Constellation
- Carina
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.28
- Distance
- 350.8 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 139.355° · Dec -74.894°
- Catalogue
- HIP 45581 · HD 80951
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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 531545.26
- HIP 421295.27
- HIP 513135.27
- HIP 474795.30
- HIP 526785.33