Star profile
HIP 53272
Hot blue starWhat is HIP 53272
In the keel of the Argo, deep in the south, burns this blue B-type star. Its light set out around 760 years ago, near 1266, when Thomas Aquinas was writing his «Summa Theologiae» and medieval scholasticism reached its peak. Much hotter and brighter than the Sun, it lives fast among stellar winds and ultraviolet radiation. Carina belongs to the ancient mythical ship that crossed the southern sky, and this blue star is one of the many bright oars driving it in silence.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 53272 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 53272
- Constellation
- Carina
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.99
- Distance
- 760.4 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 163.425° · Dec -70.720°
- Catalogue
- HIP 53272 · HD 94650
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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 516235.98
- HIP 528275.98
- HIP 461015.99
- HIP 552805.99
- HIP 511946.00