Star profile
HIP 52701
Hot blue starWhat is HIP 52701
On the keel of Carina blazes a blue B-type star, far hotter and more luminous than the Sun — an incandescent beacon of the southern hemisphere. Its 476 light-years set out when Copernicus was still revising manuscripts and no one yet suspected that Earth was simply one point among infinities. To see it is to glimpse a universe already thinking in heliocentric terms long before we could put it into words.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 52701 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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A public signature from a real person. The chosen name is a symbolic denomination within Stelvia, with no official standing or IAU recognition: the sky is not for sale and belongs to no one.
Astronomical data for HIP 52701
- Constellation
- Carina
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.23
- Distance
- 476.2 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 161.623° · Dec -64.263°
- Catalogue
- HIP 52701 · HD 93549
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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 441435.17
- HIP 390705.19
- HIP 547675.22
- HIP 496985.26
- HIP 531545.26