Star profile

HIP 69038

Variable star

3D likeness based on its real data · class M · ~3,200 K

What is HIP 69038

In Boötes, this variable red M-type giant oscillates slowly, as if breathing: its brightness shifts from one month to the next. Its light set out around 1513, when Vasco Núñez de Balboa first sighted the Pacific from a hill on the isthmus. Under skies free of light pollution it reveals a muted reddish tone, characteristic of stars that have long left their stellar youth behind.

Where it is and when to see it

HIP 69038 lies in the northern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is March, when it culminates around midnight.

From London it never sets and culminates about 82° up.
From New York it culminates about 87° above the horizon.
From Sydney it culminates about 12° above the horizon.

It can be seen from anywhere north of 46° S.

It ranks no. 34 in brightness among the 88 stars of Boötes in our catalogue. To find it, start from Arcturus, the brightest: it lies about 25° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).

The light you see today left it about 510 years ago.

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Astronomical data for HIP 69038

Constellation: Boötes
Apparent magnitude: 5.13
Distance: 512.9 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 211.982° · Dec 43.854°
Catalogue: HIP 69038 · HD 123657

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Other stars in Boötes

Boötes has 88 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.

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