Star profile
HIP 48287
What is HIP 48287
In the constellation Vela, a modern fragment of the ancient Argo, shines this orange K-type giant five hundred seventy-seven light years away. Its light began its journey around the fifteenth century, when the Catholic Monarchs were signing the Capitulations of Santa Fe in Granada in 1492, and a voyage was being born that would open a new oceanic era. Colder and far larger than the Sun, it offers its amber glow to southern observers as a stable feature of the austral celestial landscape.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 48287 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: 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 48287
- Constellation
- Vela
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.72
- Distance
- 577.3 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 147.675° · Dec -46.934°
- Catalogue
- HIP 48287 · HD 85483
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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 437975.70
- HIP 431485.71
- HIP 486135.71
- HIP 485615.72
- HIP 459625.74