Star profile
HIP 65479
What is HIP 65479
Some 128 light years away in Centaurus, this yellow-white F-type star shines at magnitude 5.32. Its light set out around 1898, in the heart of the Belle Epoque, and crosses a strip of southern sky packed with clusters and nebulae. Hotter and more energetic than the Sun, it embodies that middle ground where stars still keep their vigour without displaying the electric fury of the bluish classes. A discreet, white flame in the long current of the Centaur.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 65479 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 65479
- Constellation
- Centaurus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.32
- Distance
- 127.9 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 201.309° · Dec -64.485°
- Catalogue
- HIP 65479 · HD 116457
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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
- HIP 573715.28
- HIP 596545.31
- HIP 604495.32
- HIP 730495.32
- HIP 591845.34