Star profile
HIP 47175
What is HIP 47175
It pulses white and serene in Vela, some 105 light-years away. The light now reaching our telescopes set out around 1920, when radio first crossed the oceans as an everyday wonder. A type A star —hotter, more massive and far more luminous than the Sun—, a bluish bonfire ageing gracefully within a constellation carved from the ancient ship of the Argonauts.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 47175 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, when it culminates around midnight.
- From London it never rises above the horizon.
- From New York it never rises above the horizon.
- From Sydney it culminates about 75° above the horizon.
It can be seen from anywhere south of 41° N.
It ranks no. 18 in brightness among the 127 stars of Vela in our catalogue. To find it, start from Gamma 2 Velorum, the brightest: it lies about 15° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 110 years ago.
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Astronomical data for HIP 47175
- Constellation
- Vela
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.34
- Distance
- 105.4 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 144.207° · Dec -49.355°
- Catalogue
- HIP 47175 · HD 83446
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Other stars in Vela
Vela has 127 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- Gamma 2 Velorum1.75
- AlsephinaDelta Velorum1.93
- SuhailLambda Velorum2.23
- HIP 428844.05
- HIP 423124.11
- HIP 521544.29
- HIP 537734.37
- HIP 441914.45