Star profile
HIP 49712
Hot blue starWhat is HIP 49712
In the southern constellation of Vela burns a blue-white beacon 1,331 light-years from Earth. Its light set off when Europe was crossing the High Middle Ages and Benedictine monasteries copied manuscripts by tallow candlelight. It is a class B star, massive and hot, with a surface above 10,000 K. It lives fast: it will exhaust its hydrogen in a fraction of the time the Sun will spend doing the same.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 49712 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 49712
- Constellation
- Vela
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.85
- Distance
- 1331.4 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 152.234° · Dec -51.811°
- Catalogue
- HIP 49712 · HD 88206
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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 410394.79
- HIP 507994.82
- HIP 427264.83
- HIP 515234.89
- HIP 454394.92