Star profile
1 Centauri
What is 1 Centauri
1 Centauri opens the Flamsteed catalogue of the richest constellation in southern skies, the one the ancients pictured as a centaur drawing his spear. It is a mild F-type beacon some 63 light-years away —the light arriving now left when the first satellites were starting to circle Earth—. A touch hotter and whiter than the Sun, it glows quietly within the dense stellar river of the southern Milky Way, far from the bustle of Alpha and Beta Centauri.
Where it is and when to see it
1 Centauri 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 1 Centauri
- Constellation
- Centaurus
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.23
- Distance
- 63.3 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 206.422° · Dec -33.044°
- Catalogue
- HIP 67153 · HD 119756
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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 720104.06
- HIP 574394.11
- 2 Centauri4.19
- HIP 628964.25
- Xi 2 Centauri4.27