Star profile
Pi Chamaeleon
What is Pi Chamaeleon
Pi Chamaeleontis is a relatively nearby yellow-white star, about one hundred and thirty-five light-years away, sitting at the centre of the small austral constellation of the Chameleon. Its pale tone recalls the Sun seen from a distance no human craft today could ever reach, and it belongs to the discreet swarm of stars that outline the mythical animal invented by Dutch navigators of the sixteenth century when they first charted the unknown constellations of the far southern sky.
Where it is and when to see it
Pi Chamaeleon 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 Pi Chamaeleon
- Constellation
- Chamaeleon
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.64
- Distance
- 135.4 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 174.316° · Dec -75.897°
- Catalogue
- HIP 56675 · HD 101132
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Other stars in Chamaeleon
Chamaeleon has 19 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- Alpha Chamaeleon4.05
- Gamma Chamaeleon4.11
- Beta Chamaeleon4.24
- Eta Chamaeleon5.46
- Delta 1 Chamaeleon5.46
- Mu 1 Chamaeleon5.53
- HIP 411915.67
- HIP 430125.79