Star profile
HIP 46741
What is HIP 46741
On the keel of Carina breathes an orange sun, a settled K-type star whose light took 790 years to reach us. When it set out, the universities of Paris and Bologna were debating the Arabic translations of Aristotle. Cooler and older than our Sun, its golden atmosphere recalls the embers of a well-tended fire —the kind of warmth one associates with the end of a long, clean day under southern skies.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 46741 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 46741
- Constellation
- Carina
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.46
- Distance
- 789.8 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 142.901° · Dec -73.081°
- Catalogue
- HIP 46741 · HD 83095
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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 324945.39
- HIP 422865.45
- HIP 463585.46
- HIP 520045.47
- HIP 340005.50