Star profile
HIP 63024
Variable starWhat is HIP 63024
In Canes Venatici, the hounds the herdsman walks beneath the Great Bear, a rare red M-class giant pulses with variable brightness 695.5 light-years away. Its reddish hue and slow throb mark an aged, enormous star. The light we see departed in the heart of the Italian Renaissance, when Brunelleschi was solving the dome of Florence with a genius that still astonishes.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 63024 lies in the northern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is March, when it culminates around midnight.
- From London it never sets and culminates about 86° up.
- From New York it culminates about 84° above the horizon.
- From Sydney it culminates about 9° above the horizon.
It can be seen from anywhere north of 43° S.
It ranks no. 22 in brightness among the 33 stars of Canes Venatici in our catalogue. To find it, start from Cor Caroli, the brightest: it lies about 9° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 700 years ago.
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Astronomical data for HIP 63024
- Constellation
- Canes Venatici
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.75
- Distance
- 695.5 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 193.736° · Dec 47.197°
- Catalogue
- HIP 63024 · HD 112264
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Other stars in Canes Venatici
Canes Venatici has 33 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- Cor CaroliAlpha 2 Canum Venaticorum2.89
- CharaBeta Canum Venaticorum4.24
- 24 Canum Venaticorum4.68
- HIP 673845.61
- HIP 639165.64
- 2 Canum Venaticorum5.69
- 19 Canum Venaticorum5.77
- HIP 649275.81