Star profile
HIP 63066
Cool red starWhat is HIP 63066
Far away, within the vastness of Centaurus, glows a red M-type star, a cool, swollen giant that has already spent the hydrogen of its youth and now expands with coppery light. Its light takes about 661 years to arrive: what we see today departed in the mid-fourteenth century, when the Black Death was sweeping across Europe and reshaping the continent forever. The Centaur, half man and half beast, watches over that deep ember of the southern sky.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 63066 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 63066
- Constellation
- Centaurus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.46
- Distance
- 661.7 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 193.831° · Dec -42.916°
- Catalogue
- HIP 63066 · HD 112213
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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 575125.42
- HIP 608555.45
- HIP 567005.46
- HIP 673045.46
- HIP 651125.47