Star profile
HIP 62012
What is HIP 62012
Southward, across the breadth of Centaurus, glimmers an orange K-family star. Its light departed one hundred and ninety years ago, when Faraday was demonstrating electromagnetic induction and opening the electrical age. Cooler than the Sun, it pours a calm coppery glow, like a banked ember beneath the southern night. To see it is to hear the first coil click that changed daily life forever.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 62012 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: 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 62012
- Constellation
- Centaurus
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.66
- Distance
- 190.6 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 190.648° · Dec -48.813°
- Catalogue
- HIP 62012 · HD 110458
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Other stars in Centaurus
Centaurus has 174 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- Rigil KentaurusAlpha 1 Centauri-0.01
- HadarBeta Centauri0.61
- TolimanAlpha 2 Centauri1.35
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- HIP 639454.71
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