Star profile
HIP 50456
Variable starWhat is HIP 50456
In the small, discreet Antlia —the Pneumatic Pump devised by Lacaille in the eighteenth century— shines a blue, variable B-type star. Its light took two thousand six hundred fifty-two years to reach us: it departed around the seventh century BCE, when the Ionian philosophers —Thales, Anaximander— were inaugurating Greek rational thought in Miletus. Hot and far more luminous than the Sun, it pulses with shifting brightness, true to the restlessness of great stars.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 50456 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 50456
- Constellation
- Antlia
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.52
- Distance
- 2652.0 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 154.532° · Dec -28.992°
- Catalogue
- HIP 50456 · HD 89353
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Other stars in Antlia
Antlia has 23 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- Alpha Antliae4.28
- Epsilon Antliae4.51
- Iota Antliae4.60
- HIP 541735.43
- HIP 465785.49
- HIP 518215.50
- Delta Antliae5.57
- HYG 1186455.60