Star profile
HIP 48519
Cool red starWhat is HIP 48519
At 929 light-years, in the modest Sextant — traced by Hevelius to honor the instrument destroyed by fire in his observatory — burns a red giant whose light set out at the start of the twelfth century, amid the rise of the first European universities. Its cool atmosphere, swollen with age, radiates a deep red. A serene flame in one of the least visited constellations of the sky.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 48519 lies in the northern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is February: 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 48519
- Constellation
- Sextans
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.90
- Distance
- 929.3 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 148.429° · Dec 5.959°
- Catalogue
- HIP 48519 · HD 85709
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Other stars in Sextans
Sextans has 17 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- Alpha Sextantis4.48
- Gamma Sextantis5.07
- Beta Sextantis5.08
- 35 Sextantis5.77
- 41 Sextantis5.80
- HIP 529485.85
- 17 Sextantis5.91
- HIP 528635.92