Star profile
HIP 52405
Variable starWhat is HIP 52405
From a colossal distance —more than 326,000 light years, almost at the edges of the Milky Way or beyond— burns a variable blue B-type star, anchored in the rich southern constellation of Carina. Its light began its journey when the first Homo sapiens were walking through Africa and written language did not yet exist. Far hotter and more luminous than the Sun, it pulses with subtle changes in brightness that betray its unstable nature. To see it today is to peer into a deep past, older than nearly all human history.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 52405 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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Astronomical data for HIP 52405
- Constellation
- Carina
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.36
- Distance
- 326200.0 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 160.669° · Dec -59.216°
- Catalogue
- HIP 52405 · HD 92964
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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 455815.28
- HIP 474795.30
- HIP 526785.33
- HIP 355895.38
- HIP 455715.38