Star profile
HIP 70243
Hot blue starWhat is HIP 70243
At 1,370 light years in Centaurus, this blue B-type star shines at magnitude 5.57. Its light set out around the year 655, when the Visigoths held the Eighth Council in Toledo to reform the Hispanic court. Blue stars like this one live extraordinarily short lives in cosmic terms —only tens of millions of years— and their intense brightness compensates for distance with the cold purity of their radiation.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 70243 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 70243
- Constellation
- Centaurus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.57
- Distance
- 1370.6 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 215.582° · Dec -34.787°
- Catalogue
- HIP 70243 · HD 125745
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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 694625.53
- HIP 570135.54
- HIP 578705.56
- HIP 639725.59
- HIP 666565.61