Star profile
HIP 46897
Hot blue starWhat is HIP 46897
Along the long curves of Hydra shines a blue-white B-type star, whose surface exceeds ten thousand degrees. Its light crossed two hundred sixty-two years to reach us, departing around 1764, the year Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny in England and hastened the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. Hotter and far more luminous than the Sun, it shines in full stellar vigor —emblem of the young, massive stars that light the sky with their bluish, ephemeral glow.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 46897 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: 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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A public signature from a real person. The chosen name is a symbolic denomination within Stelvia, with no official standing or IAU recognition: the sky is not for sale and belongs to no one.
Astronomical data for HIP 46897
- Constellation
- Hydra
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.92
- Distance
- 261.8 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 143.359° · Dec -22.864°
- Catalogue
- HIP 46897 · HD 82747
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Other stars in Hydra
Hydra has 121 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- AlphardAlpha Hydrae1.99
- Gamma Hydrae2.99
- Zeta Hydrae3.11
- HIP 699655.87
- HIP 420085.89
- HIP 410805.92
- HIP 581585.93
- HIP 438995.95