Star profile
HIP 59050
What is HIP 59050
In the small Musca, suspended beneath the Southern Cross, shines a yellow sun, a G-type star slightly larger than ours whose light travelled 411 years to us. When it set out, Galileo was publishing the Sidereus Nuncius with his first telescopic observations. At that distance, its golden glow settles discreetly in a tiny constellation, as if trying to go unnoticed in one of the least travelled corners of the southern firmament.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 59050 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 HIP 59050
- Constellation
- Musca
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.95
- Distance
- 410.8 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 181.596° · Dec -65.709°
- Catalogue
- HIP 59050 · HD 105151
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Other stars in Musca
Musca has 31 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- Alpha Musca2.69
- Beta Musca3.04
- Delta Musca3.61
- HIP 644665.91
- HIP 643905.92
- HIP 631655.93
- HIP 636885.93
- HIP 567275.94