Star profile
HIP 56754
Hot blue starWhat is HIP 56754
In the vast reaches of Centaurus burns a fiercely hot blue star roughly 285 light-years away. Its light set out around 1741, as Bach composed his final works and the French encyclopedists envisioned a new order of knowledge. Its surface far exceeds ten thousand degrees —a blue-white furnace that will live only a cosmic instant before consuming itself in its own fury.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 56754 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 56754
- Constellation
- Centaurus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.15
- Distance
- 285.1 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 174.531° · Dec -61.827°
- Catalogue
- HIP 56754 · HD 101189
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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 560005.14
- HIP 566565.14
- HIP 543605.15
- HIP 588035.15
- HIP 672445.15