Star profile

HIP 58082

3D likeness based on its real data · class G · ~5,500 K

What is HIP 58082

Within the long body of Hydra burns a yellow G-type star, a spectral sister of the Sun but older and more luminous. Its light travels around 286 years to reach us: what we see today departed about 1740, when Linnaeus was publishing in Leiden the first editions of his Systema Naturae and the whole world began to be classified with two Latin words. Far from the noise, this star keeps weaving its silent biography of hydrogen.

Where it is and when to see it

HIP 58082 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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Astronomical data for HIP 58082

Constellation: Hydra
Apparent magnitude: 5.26
Distance: 286.1 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 178.677° · Dec -25.714°
Catalogue: HIP 58082 · HD 103462

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Other stars in Hydra

Hydra has 121 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.

See all 121 stars in Hydra