Star profile
HIP 52340
Variable starWhat is HIP 52340
Far away, in Chamaeleon, the small southern constellation named by navigators who first crossed the southern seas, beats a blue B-type star whose brightness wavers slightly, like a flame pushed by the wind. Its light takes nearly 927 years to reach us: what we see today departed around 1099, just as the crusaders were conquering Jerusalem after a two-year siege and a new chapter opened between East and West.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 52340 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 52340
- Constellation
- Chamaeleon
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.97
- Distance
- 926.7 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 160.465° · Dec -79.783°
- Catalogue
- HIP 52340 · HD 93237
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Other stars in Chamaeleon
Chamaeleon has 19 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- Alpha Chamaeleon4.05
- Gamma Chamaeleon4.11
- Beta Chamaeleon4.24
- Pi Chamaeleon5.64
- HIP 411915.67
- HIP 430125.79
- HIP 645875.84
- HIP 680095.95