Star profile
HIP 71865
Hot blue starWhat is HIP 71865
Deep in the southern Centaurus a blue beacon burns 339 light-years away. Its B-type spectrum betrays a furnace where hydrogen is consumed at a pace the Sun will never know. The light reaching telescopes today departed when Galileo first turned his spyglass toward the night —the very night astronomy ceased to be mere geometry and became observation.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 71865 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, when it culminates around midnight.
- From London it culminates about 1° above the horizon.
- From New York it culminates about 12° above the horizon.
- From Sydney it culminates about 86° above the horizon.
It can be seen from anywhere south of 52° N.
It ranks no. 22 in brightness among the 174 stars of Centaurus in our catalogue. To find it, start from Rigil Kentaurus, the brightest: it lies about 23° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 340 years ago.
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Astronomical data for HIP 71865
- Constellation
- Centaurus
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.01
- Distance
- 339.1 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 220.490° · Dec -37.793°
- Catalogue
- HIP 71865 · HD 129116
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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 659363.90
- Sigma Centauri3.91
- Rho Centauri3.97
- Psi Centauri4.05
- HIP 720104.06