Star profile
HIP 66454
Hot blue starWhat is HIP 66454
In Centaurus, the vast constellation that guards the brightest corners of the southern sky, it burns with the vibrant blue of hot class B stars. Its light covered 412 years before arriving: when it set out, the first English colonies were taking root in North America and Cervantes was writing the second part of Don Quixote in Madrid. It is a young, energetic sun, whose surface reaches temperatures far higher than the Sun's, and whose bluish glow stands out among the stars of its region.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 66454 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 66454
- Constellation
- Centaurus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.91
- Distance
- 412.4 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 204.348° · Dec -46.428°
- Catalogue
- HIP 66454 · HD 118354
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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 722965.90
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- HIP 645805.91
- HIP 672925.92
- HIP 683335.92