Star profile
HIP 62983
What is HIP 62983
In Virgo, the great zodiacal constellation that stretches over the spring skies, it shines with the smooth white of class A stars. Its light crossed 223 years before arriving: when it set out, Napoleonic troops were redrawing the maps of Europe and Enlightenment science was carefully charting both the sky and the earth. It is a discreet, constant star, with no known variability or companion, faithful to the white brilliance that defines it within the immense cohort of suns of its kind.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 62983 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 62983
- Constellation
- Virgo
- Apparent magnitude
- 6.00
- Distance
- 223.4 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 193.578° · Dec -11.649°
- Catalogue
- HIP 62983 · HD 112131
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Other stars in Virgo
Virgo has 99 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- SpicaAlpha Virginis0.98
- PorrimaGamma Virginis2.74
- VindemiatrixEpsilon Virginis2.85
- 50 Virginis5.95
- HIP 708945.96
- HIP 655455.97
- 46 Virginis5.99
- HIP 675456.00