Star profile
HIP 63210
Variable starWhat is HIP 63210
It glitters white-blue in Centaurus, a grand constellation of the southern sky, around 369 light years away. Its light was born about 1657, when Christiaan Huygens revealed the true shape of Saturn's rings through his telescope. B-type, fiery and young, its brightness shifts softly, as if its interior were still tuning the registers of its own score. A luminous flame traveling all this way to set its blue pulse down here, without a sound.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 63210 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 63210
- Constellation
- Centaurus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.17
- Distance
- 368.6 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 194.268° · Dec -51.199°
- Catalogue
- HIP 63210 · HD 112409
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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
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- HIP 672445.15
- HIP 557795.18
- HIP 557565.21