Star profile
HIP 62867
What is HIP 62867
Within the sprawling Centaur burns an orange K-type ember whose light set out nearly three centuries ago, when Enlightenment thinkers debated reason and liberty in the salons of the eighteenth century. Cooler and more measured than the Sun, it casts the amber tone astronomers associate with patient, long-lived stars. It shines discreetly among the southern figures, asking for no spotlight, like an old lantern still lit when almost no one looks up at the sky.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 62867 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, when it culminates around midnight.
- From London it never rises above the horizon.
- From New York it culminates about 1° above the horizon.
- From Sydney it culminates about 75° above the horizon.
It can be seen from anywhere south of 41° N.
It ranks no. 33 in brightness among the 174 stars of Centaurus in our catalogue. To find it, start from Rigil Kentaurus, the brightest: it lies about 19° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 290 years ago.
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Astronomical data for HIP 62867
- Constellation
- Centaurus
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.33
- Distance
- 294.4 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 193.279° · Dec -48.943°
- Catalogue
- HIP 62867 · HD 111915
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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
- HIP 576694.30
- HIP 700694.30
- 3 Centauri4.32
- Upsilon 2 Centauri4.34
- Chi Centauri4.36