Star profile
HIP 67819
What is HIP 67819
Centaurus, that vast austral constellation, hosts this yellow-white F-type sun, suspended 170 light-years away. Its light set out around 1855, when the first transatlantic telegraph cable was being prepared to soon link continents. While humans were learning to talk coast to coast, this star had already dispatched the photons now arriving at magnitude 5.53.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 67819 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 HIP 67819
- Constellation
- Centaurus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.53
- Distance
- 170.5 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 208.387° · Dec -35.664°
- Catalogue
- HIP 67819 · HD 120987
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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 651125.47
- HIP 564975.50
- HIP 592325.51
- HIP 694625.53
- HIP 570135.54