Star profile
HIP 69462
Highly luminous starWhat is HIP 69462
In Centaurus burns an orange K-type giant, far more luminous than the Sun and more than two thousand light-years away. Its light began travelling around the ninth century, in the days of Charlemagne, when Aachen was becoming the capital of the Carolingian Empire and Europe was barely starting to rebuild its cultural map. More than a millennium later, that copper fire crosses the southern sky and arrives here.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 69462 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 69462
- Constellation
- Centaurus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.53
- Distance
- 2132.0 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 213.318° · Dec -53.666°
- Catalogue
- HIP 69462 · HD 124147
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Other stars in Centaurus
Centaurus has 174 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
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