Star profile
HIP 62786
Hot blue starWhat is HIP 62786
In the gallop of the Centaur burns a blue flame 466 light-years away, belonging to one of the great young associations of the southern sky. Its light departed around 1560, when a young Tycho Brahe, still a student, witnessed the eclipse that would decide his life as an astronomer. Hot B-types are violent flames: they burn their fuel so quickly that they live less than a thousandth as long as the Sun.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 62786 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 62786
- Constellation
- Centaurus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.99
- Distance
- 466.0 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 192.987° · Dec -39.680°
- Catalogue
- HIP 62786 · HD 111774
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