Star profile
HIP 65144
What is HIP 65144
On the southern flank of Centaurus shines an orange sun, a K-type star cooler and more seasoned than ours whose light travelled 413 years to today. When it set out, Kepler was publishing his first laws of planetary motion. Its amber glow seems to linger in the thick air of the galactic south, a patient ember from which hangs a fragment of the mythical centaur's endless path toward the edges of the sky.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 65144 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 65144
- Constellation
- Centaurus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.76
- Distance
- 413.4 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 200.241° · Dec -46.880°
- Catalogue
- HIP 65144 · HD 115912
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Other stars in Centaurus
Centaurus has 174 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
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- TolimanAlpha 2 Centauri1.35
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