Star profile
HIP 74184
Highly luminous starWhat is HIP 74184
In the Southern Triangle blazes an astonishing beacon: a yellow-white type-F star whose light has been travelling toward us for more than three hundred thousand years, a distance so colossal it lies beyond the familiar bounds of our galaxy. When that light departed, Homo sapiens did not yet exist as we know him today. It is a colossal luminary, thousands of times brighter than the Sun —only so could it cross such an abyss— and a reminder that some stars are true lighthouses of the deep universe.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 74184 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 74184
- Constellation
- Triangulum Australe
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.76
- Distance
- 326200.0 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 227.375° · Dec -67.084°
- Catalogue
- HIP 74184 · HD 133683
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Other stars in Triangulum Australe
Triangulum Australe has 21 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- AtriaAlpha Trianguli Australis1.91
- Beta Trianguli Australis2.83
- Gamma Trianguli Australis2.87
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