Star profile
HIP 50954
What is HIP 50954
In austral Carina pulses a yellow-white F-type star, only some 53 light-years away. Its light set out the year Pioneer 11 first swept past Jupiter, in 1973. Slightly hotter than the Sun, it shines with the calm of a mature body still burning hydrogen, anchored to the navigators sky of the southern hemisphere.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 50954 lies in the southern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is May, when it culminates around midnight.
- From London it never rises above the horizon.
- From New York it never rises above the horizon.
- From Sydney it never sets and culminates about 50° up.
It can be seen from anywhere south of 16° N.
It ranks no. 18 in brightness among the 124 stars of Carina in our catalogue. To find it, start from Canopus, the brightest: it lies about 32° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 53 years ago.
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Astronomical data for HIP 50954
- Constellation
- Carina
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.99
- Distance
- 52.9 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 156.099° · Dec -74.032°
- Catalogue
- HIP 50954 · HD 90589
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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 437833.84
- HIP 544633.93
- HIP 451013.96
- HIP 469744.08
- HIP 425684.31