Star profile
HIP 69763
Hot blue starWhat is HIP 69763
Circinus is the compass of the celestial cartographer, another of those modern constellations drawn to honour scientific instruments. Within its outline burns this hot blue B-class star, young and voracious, 1305 light-years away. Its light set out at the peak of medieval Islam, when Baghdad was the planet s greatest centre of learning and Persian astronomers looked at the same sky with mathematicians eyes.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 69763 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, when it culminates around midnight.
- From London it never rises above the horizon.
- From New York it never rises above the horizon.
- From Sydney it never sets and culminates about 57° up.
It can be seen from anywhere south of 23° N.
It ranks no. 13 in brightness among the 21 stars of Circinus in our catalogue. To find it, start from Alpha Circinus, the brightest: it lies about 3° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 1,300 years ago.
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Astronomical data for HIP 69763
- Constellation
- Circinus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.72
- Distance
- 1304.8 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 214.161° · Dec -66.588°
- Catalogue
- HIP 69763 · HD 124471
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Other stars in Circinus
Circinus has 21 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- Alpha Circinus3.18
- Beta Circinus4.07
- Gamma Circinus4.48
- HIP 749415.43
- HIP 704925.56
- HIP 753085.65
- HIP 676645.73
- HIP 679425.74