Star profile
HIP 73223
Variable starWhat is HIP 73223
Orange and quietly variable, this K-type giant lives in Apus, the southern bird of paradise named by Dutch navigators in the late sixteenth century. Its light has crossed space for 374 years: it set out when Galileo —blind by then and under house arrest— was finishing his last notes on motion.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 73223 lies in the southern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is June: 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 73223
- Constellation
- Apus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.37
- Distance
- 374.5 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 224.471° · Dec -76.663°
- Catalogue
- HIP 73223 · HD 131109
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Other stars in Apus
Apus has 21 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- Alpha Apus3.83
- Gamma Apus3.86
- Beta Apus4.23
- Eta Apus4.89
- Epsilon Apus5.06
- Delta 2 Apus5.27
- Iota Apus5.39
- Kappa 1 Apus5.40