Star profile

HIP 70384

3D likeness based on its real data · class A · ~8,500 K

What is HIP 70384

Clean white in Boötes, 442 light years away. The light now crossing the European spring took leave around 1584, the year the first English colony was founded at Roanoke, in what would become Virginia. A typical A-class star, without companions or pulses: the kind that contributes to the framework of the constellation more by steady presence than by dramatic episode.

Where it is and when to see it

HIP 70384 lies in the northern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is April, when it culminates around midnight.

From London it culminates about 47° above the horizon.
From New York it culminates about 58° above the horizon.
From Sydney it culminates about 48° above the horizon.

It can be seen from anywhere north of 82° S.

It ranks no. 81 in brightness among the 88 stars of Boötes in our catalogue. To find it, start from Arcturus, the brightest: it lies about 11° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).

The light you see today left it about 440 years ago.

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Astronomical data for HIP 70384

Constellation: Boötes
Apparent magnitude: 5.94
Distance: 442.0 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 216.004° · Dec 8.244°
Catalogue: HIP 70384 · HD 126200

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Other stars in Boötes

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

See all 88 stars in Boötes