Star profile
HIP 70931
What is HIP 70931
It shines white as an A-type star in Lupus, a sober southern constellation. Its light took just over two hundred years to reach us: it set out when Beethoven was premiering his Third symphony in Vienna and Europe was shaken by the Napoleonic surge. Hotter and shorter-lived than the Sun. Within the wolf s outline it holds a humble post, far from the main lines of the body.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 70931 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 70931
- Constellation
- Lupus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.38
- Distance
- 203.4 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 217.587° · Dec -49.519°
- Catalogue
- HIP 70931 · HD 126983
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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 769395.23
- HIP 758285.26
- Upsilon Lupi5.36
- HIP 730955.38
- HIP 715005.39