Star profile
HIP 66821
Hot blue starWhat is HIP 66821
A hot B-class star whose blue incandescence cuts across Centaurus from 271 light-years away. The light arriving tonight set out when Cassini was observing Jupiter's Great Red Spot and European astronomers were beginning to measure the sky with pendulum clocks. It burns at temperatures the Sun will never know: a brief and fierce flame in the southern stream.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 66821 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 66821
- Constellation
- Centaurus
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.99
- Distance
- 271.4 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 205.437° · Dec -54.559°
- Catalogue
- HIP 66821 · HD 118991
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