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hip-55581
Its story
Centaurus keeps this white A-class star more than seven hundred light-years away. Its light set out around 1265, during the reign of Alfonso X the Wise in Castile, when Arab astronomical treatises were being translated in Toledo and the Alfonsine Tables were being prepared. Almost eight centuries later, that white glow crosses the centaur's flank and lands in our sensors.
- Constellation
- Centaurus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.82
- Distance
- 760.4 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 170.784° · Dec -56.779°
- Catalogue
- HIP 55581 · HD 99022
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