Star profile
HIP 61181
What is HIP 61181
In Musca, the small southern Fly, it shines orange about 348 light years away. Its light set out around 1678, when Spinoza had just died, leaving his Ethics in posthumous form, and the French Académie was beginning to fix the canon of European literature. A K-type star, cooler than the Sun, with a coppery, steady glow. Its light crosses the southern sky like a small ember recalling the ancient warmth of hearths.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 61181 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 61181
- Constellation
- Musca
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.88
- Distance
- 347.8 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 188.041° · Dec -73.001°
- Catalogue
- HIP 61181 · HD 108970
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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 626085.55
- HIP 655225.65
- Zeta 1 Musca5.73
- HIP 562875.89
- HIP 587205.89