Star profile
HIP 58379
Hot blue starWhat is HIP 58379
The Southern Cross hosts a blue class B star whose light took 762 years to reach us. When it left, European courts were witnessing the rise of the first stable universities and Atlantic sailors were starting to use the compass routinely. Its blue-white hue betrays a very hot surface, able to ionize the surrounding gas. It is one of the bright young stars adorning the small but iconic southern constellation.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 58379 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 58379
- Constellation
- Crux
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.44
- Distance
- 762.1 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 179.563° · Dec -56.317°
- Catalogue
- HIP 58379 · HD 103961
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Other stars in Crux
Crux has 32 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- AcruxAlpha 1 Crucis0.77
- MimosaBeta Crucis1.25
- GacruxGamma Crucis1.59
- HIP 631175.34
- HIP 603795.38
- HIP 607815.38
- HIP 611365.49
- HIP 583265.59