Star profile
HIP 60379
Hot blue starWhat is HIP 60379
Another blue light from the Southern Cross, this one some three hundred and sixty light years away, travels to us from the era when Tycho Brahe was building his observatory of Uraniborg on a Danish island. Its hot B-type places it among the region's young stars, heirs of the same burst of stellar formation that sculpted the constellation.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 60379 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, when it culminates around midnight.
- From London it never rises above the horizon.
- From New York it never rises above the horizon.
- From Sydney it never sets and culminates about 66° up.
It can be seen from anywhere south of 32° N.
It ranks no. 18 in brightness among the 32 stars of Crux in our catalogue. To find it, start from Acrux, the brightest: it lies about 5° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 360 years ago.
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Astronomical data for HIP 60379
- Constellation
- Crux
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.38
- Distance
- 361.6 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 185.706° · Dec -57.676°
- Catalogue
- HIP 60379 · HD 107696
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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
- Mu 2 Crucis5.08
- HIP 620275.27
- HIP 631175.34
- HIP 607815.38
- HIP 583795.44