Star profile
HIP 46620
Variable starWhat is HIP 46620
On the keel of Carina, 968 light-years away, beats a red type-M star whose light departed in the heart of the Middle Ages, around the 11th century, when Europe was pilgrimaging to Compostela. It is a variable giant, cool at the surface but enormously swollen, its intrinsic brightness far exceeding the Sun's. It pulses with a slow rhythm, expanding and contracting like an ancient heart. Its crimson light seems to arrive from the embers of a forgotten era.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 46620 lies in the southern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is March: 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 46620
- Constellation
- Carina
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.88
- Distance
- 968.0 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 142.598° · Dec -58.362°
- Catalogue
- HIP 46620 · HD 82536
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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 455855.86
- HIP 364445.87
- HIP 391845.87
- HIP 520435.89
- HIP 464605.90