Star profile
HIP 51523
What is HIP 51523
In the Sails of the ship Argo glimmers this yellow-white F-type star, only 71 light-years away. Its light set out in the early 1950s, while Watson and Crick were unravelling the double helix of DNA and the first civilian nuclear reactor was being switched on. It runs a touch hotter and whiter than the Sun, like a slightly hurried younger sister. Cosmically near, its glow nonetheless reaches us already aged by a human lifetime.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 51523 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 51523
- Constellation
- Vela
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.89
- Distance
- 71.1 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 157.842° · Dec -53.715°
- Catalogue
- HIP 51523 · HD 91324
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Other stars in Vela
Vela has 127 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
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- AlsephinaDelta Velorum1.93
- SuhailLambda Velorum2.23
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