Star profile
HIP 49698
What is HIP 49698
On the keel of the southern Carina burns an orange type-K star whose light took 369 years to reach us. When that light departed, Louis XIV was inaugurating Versailles and Baroque Europe gleamed in wigs and mirrors. Cooler than the Sun yet also older, this orange giant has already consumed its central hydrogen and swollen toward a stellar dusk. Its coppery tone is that of a distant bonfire sustained by the patience of time.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 49698 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: 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 49698
- Constellation
- Carina
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.26
- Distance
- 369.4 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 152.178° · Dec -65.815°
- Catalogue
- HIP 49698 · HD 88323
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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 390705.19
- HIP 547675.22
- HIP 527015.23
- HIP 531545.26
- HIP 421295.27