Star profile
HIP 65595
What is HIP 65595
Within the silent celestial Giraffe glows a G-type yellow star 286 light-years from Earth. Its light set out around 1740, when Bach was composing his last great works and Europe was preparing for the full Enlightenment. Akin in colour and temperature to the Sun yet larger and brighter, it is an elder sister to the star that warms us every morning.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 65595 lies in the northern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is January, when it culminates around midnight.
- From London it never sets and culminates about 63° up.
- From New York it never sets and culminates about 52° up.
- From Sydney it never rises above the horizon.
It can be seen from anywhere north of 11° S.
It ranks no. 54 in brightness among the 75 stars of Camelopardalis in our catalogue. To find it, start from Beta Camelopardalis, the brightest: it lies about 37° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 290 years ago.
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Astronomical data for HIP 65595
- Constellation
- Camelopardalis
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.74
- Distance
- 285.9 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 201.738° · Dec 78.644°
- Catalogue
- HIP 65595 · HD 117566
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Other stars in Camelopardalis
Camelopardalis has 75 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- Beta Camelopardalis4.03
- HIP 162284.21
- Alpha Camelopardalis4.26
- HIP 338275.69
- HIP 199835.72
- HIP 173425.74
- HIP 229365.75
- HIP 319405.75