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, when it culminates around midnight.
- From London it never rises above the horizon.
- From New York it never rises above the horizon.
- From Sydney it never sets and culminates about 57° up.
It can be seen from anywhere south of 23° N.
It ranks no. 16 in brightness among the 21 stars of Triangulum Australe in our catalogue. To find it, start from Atria, the brightest: it lies about 9° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 330,000 years ago.
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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
- HIP 756655.71
- HIP 782795.74
- HIP 745825.75
- HIP 780455.76
- HIP 831505.79