Star profile
HIP 63688
Hot blue starWhat is HIP 63688
In Musca, the small southern fly, blazes a blue B-type star whose light has been traveling for a thousand years. It set out when the Maghrebi kingdoms were flourishing and the workshops of Córdoba and Seville were translating Greek philosophy for Europe. Very hot and massive, several times more luminous than the Sun, it is a blue-white incandescence in a constellation drawn by Dutch navigators in the southern sky. Its flame is a medieval message only now crossing the threshold of our telescopes, claimed by no proper name.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 63688 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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Astronomical data for HIP 63688
- Constellation
- Musca
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.93
- Distance
- 1000.6 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 195.772° · Dec -71.476°
- Catalogue
- HIP 63688 · HD 113120
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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 644665.91
- HIP 643905.92
- HIP 631655.93
- HIP 567275.94
- HIP 590505.95