Star profile
1 Lupi
Highly luminous starWhat is 1 Lupi
1 Lupi is a highly luminous star in Lupus, leaning into the southern sky almost 2,000 light-years away. It belongs to the F family, those whitish-yellow stars hotter than the Sun, with calm photospheres. At such a distance, its light takes so long to reach us that the flicker crossing the atmosphere tonight left its surface when, on Earth, the Byzantine empire still stood and the first European universities had yet to be founded.
Where it is and when to see it
1 Lupi 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 1 Lupi
- Constellation
- Lupus
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.91
- Distance
- 1953.3 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 228.656° · Dec -31.519°
- Catalogue
- HIP 74604 · HD 135153
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Other stars in Lupus
Lupus has 74 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- Alpha Lupi2.30
- Beta Lupi2.68
- Gamma Lupi2.80
- HIP 701044.78
- HIP 744494.83
- HIP 786554.90
- Nu 1 Lupi4.99
- HIP 783234.99