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hip-62703
Its story
In Centaurus, beside the horseshoe of the Southern Cross, glows a white A-type star about 332 light-years away. Its light departed around 1694, when Christiaan Huygens was sharing his ideas on light and Saturn's rings with the Royal Society. Hotter than the Sun, it keeps the bluish-white radiance of stars that are still young.
- Constellation
- Centaurus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.70
- Distance
- 332.2 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 192.741° · Dec -52.787°
- Catalogue
- HIP 62703 · HD 111588
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