Star profile
Omega Carinae
Hot blue starWhat is Omega Carinae
Omega Carinae shines more than three hundred light-years away, a blue-white B-type star belonging to the old Keel of the dismantled Argo Navis. Its hot ember places it among the most energetic naked-eye stars of the southern heavens, where it wheels close to the south celestial pole and never sets for observers in the southern hemisphere. It is a sharp, cold flash in a region thick with clusters and nebulae.
Where it is and when to see it
Omega Carinae 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 Omega Carinae
- Constellation
- Carina
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.29
- Distance
- 341.9 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 153.434° · Dec -70.038°
- Catalogue
- HIP 50099 · HD 89080
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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
- AspidiskeIota Carinae2.21
- Theta Carinae2.74
- Upsilon Carinae2.92
- HIP 515763.30
- HIP 503713.39