Star profile
HIP 46358
What is HIP 46358
In the keel of Carina, in the southern sky, twinkles an orange type-K star, cooler than the Sun and dressed in the warm tone of a distant bonfire. Its light set out 202 years ago, when Beethoven premiered his Ninth Symphony in Vienna and the human choir first sang the ode to joy. It has crossed two centuries of silent sky to deposit its discreet glow upon our night.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 46358 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 46358
- Constellation
- Carina
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.46
- Distance
- 201.9 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 141.777° · Dec -71.602°
- Catalogue
- HIP 46358 · HD 82350
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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 455715.38
- HIP 324945.39
- HIP 422865.45
- HIP 467415.46
- HIP 520045.47