Star profile
HIP 73166
What is HIP 73166
532 light-years separate Boötes from this yellow G-class star, a spectral cousin of our Sun yet far more distant in time. The light we see tonight broke loose around 1494, the year of the Treaty of Tordesillas, when Castile and Portugal divided the known world along an invisible line. A solitary yellow, with no adornment beyond its spectral class.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 73166 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: 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 73166
- Constellation
- Boötes
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.72
- Distance
- 532.1 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 224.299° · Dec 16.388°
- Catalogue
- HIP 73166 · HD 132146
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Other stars in Boötes
Boötes has 88 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- ArcturusAlpha Boötis-0.05
- IzarEpsilon Boötis2.35
- MuphridEta Boötis2.68
- 7 Boötis5.71
- HIP 664175.72
- HIP 720125.72
- 1 Boötis5.73
- HIP 712805.74