Star profile
HIP 68101
What is HIP 68101
Centaurus is one of the vastest, richest constellations of the southern sky, home to Alpha Centauri, the stellar system nearest to our Sun. Far from that jewel, in more discreet corners, glows this yellow star — sibling in tone and temperature to our own — whose light took about 126 years to arrive. It set out at the end of the nineteenth century, when Hertzsprung and Russell were beginning to classify stars by colour and luminosity, founding the diagram that to this day organises our understanding of the cosmos.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 68101 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 68101
- Constellation
- Centaurus
- Apparent magnitude
- 6.00
- Distance
- 126.2 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 209.137° · Dec -54.705°
- Catalogue
- HIP 68101 · HD 121384
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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
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