Star profile
HIP 73350
Cool red starWhat is HIP 73350
Within the vast Virgo, 702 light-years away, beats a rare red M-type star, one of the coolest in the visible firmament. Its light set out around 1324, when Marco Polo was dictating his last memoirs in Venice after returning from Cathay. Far cooler than the Sun, with a surface of barely 3,500 degrees, its crimson tone evokes embers that have refused to die out for centuries.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 73350 lies in the northern 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 73350
- Constellation
- Virgo
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.91
- Distance
- 701.5 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 224.846° · Dec 4.568°
- Catalogue
- HIP 73350 · HD 132525
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Other stars in Virgo
Virgo has 99 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- SpicaAlpha Virginis0.98
- PorrimaGamma Virginis2.74
- VindemiatrixEpsilon Virginis2.85
- 13 Virginis5.90
- 92 Virginis5.90
- HIP 621035.91
- HIP 662475.92
- 10 Virginis5.95