Star profile
HIP 56000
Hot blue starWhat is HIP 56000
On the southern plains of Centaurus, this hot blue B-type star has been sending us light for seven centuries. It departed around 1326, when illuminated manuscripts flourished in monasteries and the Black Death was silently brewing on the Asian steppes. Its bluish surface scorches far hotter than the Sun's, and no human eye could endure its proximity. We see it tiny only because seven hundred years of space stand between its fury and our sky.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 56000 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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Astronomical data for HIP 56000
- Constellation
- Centaurus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.14
- Distance
- 700.0 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 172.146° · Dec -42.674°
- Catalogue
- HIP 56000 · HD 99803
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Other stars in Centaurus
Centaurus has 174 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- Rigil KentaurusAlpha 1 Centauri-0.01
- HadarBeta Centauri0.61
- TolimanAlpha 2 Centauri1.35
- HIP 655355.11
- Omicron 2 Centauri5.12
- HIP 614685.12
- HIP 566565.14
- HIP 543605.15