Star profile
HIP 51438
What is HIP 51438
A white star in the constellation Carina, whose light crossed 260 years of emptiness before reaching our telescopes. When it left her surface, James Cook was sailing the Pacific and European Enlightenment scholars were charting the southern sky for the first time. An A-class object, hotter than the Sun, casting the characteristic white glow of young, dust-free stars.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 51438 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: 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 51438
- Constellation
- Carina
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.72
- Distance
- 260.5 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 157.584° · Dec -71.993°
- Catalogue
- HIP 51438 · HD 91375
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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 511924.65
- HIP 446264.66
- HIP 521024.69
- HIP 399034.74
- HIP 523704.76