Star profile
HIP 46578
What is HIP 46578
In the modest constellation of Antlia, the old air pump of the southern sky, burns an orange giant of class K. Its light has crossed space for some 790 years, since the days when Marco Polo travelled the Silk Road to the court of Kublai Khan. It is an aged star, cool at the skin yet still generous in light, with an atmosphere where fragile molecules can settle.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 46578 lies in the southern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is February, when it culminates around midnight.
- From London it culminates about 12° above the horizon.
- From New York it culminates about 23° above the horizon.
- From Sydney it culminates about 83° above the horizon.
It can be seen from anywhere south of 63° N.
It ranks no. 8 in brightness among the 23 stars of Antlia in our catalogue. To find it, start from Alpha Antliae, the brightest: it lies about 13° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 790 years ago.
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Astronomical data for HIP 46578
- Constellation
- Antlia
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.49
- Distance
- 789.8 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 142.477° · Dec -26.590°
- Catalogue
- HIP 46578 · HD 82205
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Other stars in Antlia
Antlia has 23 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- Alpha Antliae4.28
- Epsilon Antliae4.51
- Iota Antliae4.60
- Eta Antliae5.23
- HIP 508885.34
- HIP 541735.43
- HIP 518215.50
- HIP 504565.52