Star profile
HIP 72800
Variable starWhat is HIP 72800
A blue B-type star flickers softly in the heart of Centaurus, that mythical figure galloping through the southern skies. Its glow reaches us after nearly 492 years of travel, having departed when Magellan was first circling the Earth and Iberian sailors discovered that the southern firmament looked nothing like Europe's. Its variable pulse is the distant echo of that same stellar strangeness.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 72800 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 72800
- Constellation
- Centaurus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.02
- Distance
- 492.0 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 223.213° · Dec -37.803°
- Catalogue
- HIP 72800 · HD 131120
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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
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