Star profile
HIP 52737
What is HIP 52737
Within the long serpent of Hydra shines a white class A star some 206 light-years away. Its light set out around 1819, when the SS Savannah was making the first transatlantic crossing under steam and independence was spreading through the new Hispanic-American republics. Hot and luminous, its crystalline tone makes it one of those discreet but unmistakable points scattered along the constellation's spine.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 52737 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: 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 52737
- Constellation
- Hydra
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.44
- Distance
- 205.9 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 161.717° · Dec -17.297°
- Catalogue
- HIP 52737 · HD 93397
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Other stars in Hydra
Hydra has 121 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- AlphardAlpha Hydrae1.99
- Gamma Hydrae2.99
- Zeta Hydrae3.11
- HIP 464045.38
- HIP 616215.41
- HIP 544775.43
- HIP 621315.46
- 20 Hydrae5.47