Star profile
HIP 47854
Variable starWhat is HIP 47854
A yellow light pulsing with a slow heartbeat, hidden in the keel of Carina. It is a variable giant whose glow travels 1561 years before touching the eye —when this light departed, the Byzantine Empire still held the Bosphorus and Constantinople had not yet fallen. Every flicker we see tonight is a fossil pulse the star itself has long forgotten.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 47854 lies in the southern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is April, 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 never sets and culminates about 61° up.
It can be seen from anywhere south of 27° N.
It ranks no. 12 in brightness among the 124 stars of Carina in our catalogue. To find it, start from Canopus, the brightest: it lies about 28° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 1,600 years ago.
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Astronomical data for HIP 47854
- Constellation
- Carina
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.69
- Distance
- 1560.8 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 146.312° · Dec -62.508°
- Catalogue
- HIP 47854 · HD 84810
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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 503713.39
- HIP 450803.43
- Chi Carinae3.46
- HIP 532533.78
- HIP 512323.81