Star profile
HIP 61158
What is HIP 61158
In the Southern Cross shines a white class A star at 245 light-years. Its light departed around 1781, when Herschel was discovering Uranus from Bath and the era of planets beyond Saturn was opening. Of clean tone and a temperature near 9,000 K, its spectral lines are dominated by hydrogen. It is one of the many steady presences of the small yet iconic constellation that guides navigators in the southern hemisphere.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 61158 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 61158
- Constellation
- Crux
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.96
- Distance
- 245.1 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 187.984° · Dec -63.506°
- Catalogue
- HIP 61158 · HD 109000
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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
- Kappa Crucis5.89
- HIP 595175.91
- HIP 603085.91
- HIP 589215.95
- HIP 620585.99