Star profile
HIP 68191
What is HIP 68191
This orange giant of Centaurus pours out the warm glow of an old flame, cooler than the Sun and tinting its disk with hues of burnished copper. The light reaching us now departed a little more than two centuries ago, when Goya was painting his caprichos in Madrid and Enlightenment ideas were sweeping across Europe. It belongs to the branch of stars that have already swollen their atmospheres, foreshadowing what will one day happen to our Sun once it leaves behind its quiet maturity.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 68191 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 68191
- Constellation
- Centaurus
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.71
- Distance
- 209.6 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 209.412° · Dec -63.687°
- Catalogue
- HIP 68191 · HD 121474
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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 672344.64
- HIP 620124.66
- HIP 639454.71
- HIP 691914.74
- 4 Centauri4.75