Star profile
HIP 52407
What is HIP 52407
Antlia, Lacaille's pneumatic pump, is one of the most austere and least visited corners of the southern sky. There glows a white star 611 light-years away, whose light departed around 1415, the year Henry V of England won the Battle of Agincourt. Silent white heat, neither variable nor partnered, burning in one of the emptiest hollows of the firmament.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 52407 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, when it culminates around midnight.
- From London it culminates about 6° above the horizon.
- From New York it culminates about 17° above the horizon.
- From Sydney it culminates about 89° above the horizon.
It can be seen from anywhere south of 57° N.
It ranks no. 15 in brightness among the 23 stars of Antlia in our catalogue. To find it, start from Alpha Antliae, the brightest: it lies about 4° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 610 years ago.
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Astronomical data for HIP 52407
- Constellation
- Antlia
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.63
- Distance
- 610.9 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 160.680° · Dec -32.716°
- Catalogue
- HIP 52407 · HD 92845
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Other stars in Antlia
Antlia has 23 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- Alpha Antliae4.28
- Epsilon Antliae4.51
- Iota Antliae4.60
- HYG 1186455.60
- HIP 529655.61
- HIP 471995.62
- HIP 471875.68
- Zeta 1 Antliae5.75