Star profile
HIP 72250
What is HIP 72250
It belongs to Lupus, the celestial wolf prowling beside the southern centaur. Its white light, proper to A-class stars, suggests a high temperature and a relatively young age. What we see today set out some 306 years ago, when the Bourbons had just settled onto the Spanish throne and the Real Academia Española had been newly founded. Hotter and more luminous than the Sun, it shines with a pure, almost metallic white that quietly upholds the wolf's outline in the southern sky.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 72250 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 72250
- Constellation
- Lupus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.74
- Distance
- 305.7 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 221.621° · Dec -47.441°
- Catalogue
- HIP 72250 · HD 129858
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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
- Nu 2 Lupi5.65
- Kappa 2 Lupi5.70
- HIP 789705.72
- HIP 740665.75
- HIP 740065.77