Star profile
HIP 64466
What is HIP 64466
In the small southern Fly shines a white A-class star, whose light set out some 296 years ago, when English clockmakers were perfecting the marine chronometers that would make it possible to measure longitude on the open sea. A stars are young, clean bodies, brilliant white with hot skies that place them among the most striking protagonists of the stellar catalogue.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 64466 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 64466
- Constellation
- Musca
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.91
- Distance
- 296.0 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 198.203° · Dec -66.227°
- Catalogue
- HIP 64466 · HD 114570
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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 611815.88
- HIP 562875.89
- HIP 587205.89
- HIP 643905.92
- HIP 631655.93