Star profile
HIP 63165
What is HIP 63165
It dwells in Musca, a small, understated constellation at the southern edge of the sky, imagined by 16th-century navigators. A yellow G-type star, similar to the Sun in colour but far more luminous, its light set out some 575 years ago, just as Johannes Gutenberg was about to print his famous Bible and transform the spread of knowledge across Europe. A golden sun in the southernmost corner of the Milky Way.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 63165 lies in the southern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is May: 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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A public signature from a real person. The chosen name is a symbolic denomination within Stelvia, with no official standing or IAU recognition: the sky is not for sale and belongs to no one.
Astronomical data for HIP 63165
- Constellation
- Musca
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.93
- Distance
- 575.3 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 194.132° · Dec -72.185°
- Catalogue
- HIP 63165 · HD 112219
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Other stars in Musca
Musca has 31 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- Alpha Musca2.69
- Beta Musca3.04
- Delta Musca3.61
- HIP 587205.89
- HIP 644665.91
- HIP 643905.92
- HIP 636885.93
- HIP 567275.94