Star profile
HIP 48348
What is HIP 48348
In Vela, another fragment of the ancient Argo sailing across the southern sky, an orange K-type star shines about 323 light years away. Its light departed around 1703, when Peter the Great was founding Saint Petersburg in the Baltic marshes. Cooler than the Sun and bearing a gentle amber tone, it belongs to the same family as many of the giants that fill modern catalogues. Its steady pulse matches the apparent stillness of those eternally unfurled sails, which mythological imagination saw swollen by sidereal winds.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 48348 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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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 48348
- Constellation
- Vela
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.62
- Distance
- 323.3 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 147.832° · Dec -46.194°
- Catalogue
- HIP 48348 · HD 85563
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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 511405.58
- HIP 502415.59
- HIP 459205.61
- HIP 399195.66
- HIP 506095.66