Star profile
HIP 60044
What is HIP 60044
In Draco —coiling around the north celestial pole— shines an A-type star, white and clean, hotter than the Sun and noticeably more luminous. Its glow set out around 1700, when Bach composed his first cantatas and Newton published the second edition of the Principia. Three centuries later, that same gleam —faithful to itself— now completes its journey.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 60044 lies in the northern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is January: 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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A public signature from a real person. The chosen name is a symbolic denomination within Stelvia, with no official standing or IAU recognition: the sky is not for sale and belongs to no one.
Astronomical data for HIP 60044
- Constellation
- Draco
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.47
- Distance
- 319.2 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 184.709° · Dec 75.161°
- Catalogue
- HIP 60044 · HD 107193
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Other stars in Draco
Draco has 122 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- EltaninGamma Draco2.24
- AthebyneEta Draco2.73
- RastabanBeta Draco2.79
- Tianyi5.43
- Psi 2 Draco5.43
- HIP 788935.44
- HIP 726645.48
- HIP 925495.51