Star profile
HIP 56318
What is HIP 56318
In the little Crater, some 481 light-years away, a serene orange star pours its light like slow wine. That light departed when the Medici were ruling Florence and Michelangelo was painting the vault of the Sistine Chapel. Five centuries later, the cup still tilts over the night and the orange ember still spills out, in no hurry.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 56318 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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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 56318
- Constellation
- Crater
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.94
- Distance
- 481.1 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 173.198° · Dec -7.828°
- Catalogue
- HIP 56318 · HD 100343
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Other stars in Crater
Crater has 17 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- Delta Crateris3.56
- Gamma Crateris4.06
- AlkesAlpha Crateris4.08
- HIP 533165.65
- HIP 560785.77
- HIP 537785.86
- HIP 537235.88
- Kappa Crateris5.93