Star profile
HIP 52102
Highly luminous starWhat is HIP 52102
More than twenty-three centuries of light separate us from this orange giant on Carina's keel. Its glow set out when Aristotle still walked the Lyceum, around the fourth century before our era. It belongs to the luminous: an aged star bloated with cold light, devouring hydrogen with the slow majesty of old suns, tens of times brighter than ours.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 52102 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, 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 65° up.
It can be seen from anywhere south of 31° N.
It ranks no. 33 in brightness among the 124 stars of Carina in our catalogue. To find it, start from Canopus, the brightest: it lies about 35° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 2,300 years ago.
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Astronomical data for HIP 52102
- Constellation
- Carina
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.69
- Distance
- 2346.8 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 159.688° · Dec -59.183°
- Catalogue
- HIP 52102 · HD 92397
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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 543014.62
- HIP 511924.65
- HIP 446264.66
- HIP 514384.72
- HIP 399034.74