Star profile
HIP 47187
What is HIP 47187
It dwells in Antlia, the air pump, another constellation imagined by Lacaille to commemorate 17th-century inventions. An orange K-type star, cooler and older than the Sun, glowing with a contained golden warmth. Its light set out some 312 years ago, when Bartolomeo Cristofori was inventing the first pianoforte in Florence. A warm glint in a southern corner of the sky populated by modest yet meaningful objects.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 47187 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 13° above the horizon.
- From New York it culminates about 24° above the horizon.
- From Sydney it culminates about 81° above the horizon.
It can be seen from anywhere south of 65° N.
It ranks no. 16 in brightness among the 23 stars of Antlia in our catalogue. To find it, start from Alpha Antliae, the brightest: it lies about 12° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 310 years ago.
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Astronomical data for HIP 47187
- Constellation
- Antlia
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.68
- Distance
- 311.6 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 144.251° · Dec -25.297°
- Catalogue
- HIP 47187 · HD 83332
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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
- HIP 529655.61
- HIP 471995.62
- HIP 524075.63
- Zeta 1 Antliae5.75
- HIP 487485.83