Star profile
HIP 45856
What is HIP 45856
About 234 light years away, in luminous Carina, a yellow G-type star resembles the Sun yet shines with greater intrinsic brilliance: a more mature version already swelling toward giant status. Its light departed around 1792, when France was proclaiming its First Republic and the southern sky still held many secrets for European cartographers. It shares with our daytime star that temperate temperature which tints the spectrum pale gold, though its size and age place it in another chapter of stellar life. It glows quietly amid the splendour of the Keel.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 45856 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 45856
- Constellation
- Carina
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.79
- Distance
- 233.7 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 140.237° · Dec -62.405°
- Catalogue
- HIP 45856 · HD 81101
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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 514384.72
- HIP 399034.74
- HIP 523704.76
- HIP 525024.80
- HIP 391384.81