Star profile
HIP 70663
What is HIP 70663
In Lupus, the celestial wolf prowling beside the Centaur, glints a white A-type star some 221 light-years away. Its light set off in the early nineteenth century, when the Napoleonic Wars were redrawing Europe's political map and the Enlightenment was giving way to Romanticism. Hotter than the Sun, its crisp brilliance is like a fang of cold light gleaming between the dark jaws of the celestial predator.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 70663 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 70663
- Constellation
- Lupus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.83
- Distance
- 221.3 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 216.801° · Dec -46.134°
- Catalogue
- HIP 70663 · HD 126504
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Other stars in Lupus
Lupus has 74 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- Alpha Lupi2.30
- Beta Lupi2.68
- Gamma Lupi2.80
- HIP 740065.77
- HIP 781425.78
- HIP 762075.82
- HIP 741005.85
- HIP 711825.86