Star profile
HIP 50847
Hot blue starWhat is HIP 50847
In the Keel of the ancient celestial ship glows a blue star whose light set out when European cartographers were redrawing the world after the first ocean voyages. Four centuries later, its message arrives untouched by time. It is a young sun, several times more massive than ours, with a surface so warm that its brilliance carries electric sapphire undertones. Glancing southward we find it modest among more famous neighbours, announcing itself only by its clean colour and its serene silence.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 50847 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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A public signature from a real person. The chosen name is a symbolic denomination within Stelvia, with no official standing or IAU recognition: the sky is not for sale and belongs to no one.
Astronomical data for HIP 50847
- Constellation
- Carina
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.97
- Distance
- 401.7 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 155.742° · Dec -66.901°
- Catalogue
- HIP 50847 · HD 90264
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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 369424.93
- HIP 439374.93
- HIP 514954.94
- HIP 519125.08
- HIP 361145.09