hip-5661

Variable star

Its story

It is a white A-type star in Sculptor, another of the constellations Lacaille traced in the southern sky in honour of the arts and the workshops. It is also a variable: its brightness breathes to its own beat. Its light took some 226 years to arrive: it set out around 1799, in the midst of Europe s Napoleonic reorganisation. In Sculptor, with no major bright knots, it keeps a discreet pulse reminiscent of a chisel s patient rhythm.

Constellation: Sculptor
Apparent magnitude: 5.95
Distance: 226.4 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 18.189° · Dec -37.856°
Catalogue: HIP 5661 · HD 7312

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