Star profile
44 Hydrae
What is 44 Hydrae
44 Hydrae is an orange K-type giant about 798 light-years away, threaded along Hydra —the largest of the 88 modern constellations. Its warm cast reveals a star past its prime, swollen far beyond its former main sequence. Its light departed in the early thirteenth century, when the first Latin universities were only beginning to debate the nature of the firmament.
Where it is and when to see it
44 Hydrae 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 44 Hydrae
- Constellation
- Hydra
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.08
- Distance
- 797.6 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 158.504° · Dec -23.745°
- Catalogue
- HIP 51718 · HD 91550
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Other stars in Hydra
Hydra has 121 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- AlphardAlpha Hydrae1.99
- Gamma Hydrae2.99
- Zeta Hydrae3.11
- HIP 468805.02
- Kappa Hydrae5.07
- 50 Hydrae5.07
- HIP 576135.10
- HIP 563325.13