Star profile

HIP 71094

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

What is HIP 71094

Within Boötes shines a white A-type star, hotter and more luminous than the Sun, casting a sharp, almost crystalline light. Its glow has been travelling for only some two and a half centuries: it set out when eighteenth-century astronomers were measuring the distance to the Sun for the first time using the transit of Venus, an operation coordinated by ships across every ocean. After 240 light-years, that white light arrives as a reminder that the sky, too, was measured thanks to the seas.

Where it is and when to see it

HIP 71094 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 65° above the horizon.
From New York it culminates about 76° above the horizon.
From Sydney it culminates about 29° above the horizon.

It can be seen from anywhere north of 63° S.

It ranks no. 87 in brightness among the 88 stars of Boötes in our catalogue. To find it, start from Arcturus, the brightest: it lies about 8° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).

The light you see today left it about 240 years ago.

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Astronomical data for HIP 71094

Constellation: Boötes
Apparent magnitude: 6.00
Distance: 240.2 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 218.084° · Dec 26.677°
Catalogue: HIP 71094 · HD 127726

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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