Star profile
HIP 74950
Variable starWhat is HIP 74950
Variable and blue, on the back of Lupus, 547 light-years away. The slow pulsations of its atmosphere turn it into an unstable beacon that professional astronomers catalogue with patience. Its light set out around the fall of Constantinople in 1453, the event that symbolically closes the Middle Ages.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 74950 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 74950
- Constellation
- Lupus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.59
- Distance
- 547.3 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 229.735° · Dec -40.788°
- Catalogue
- HIP 74950 · HD 135876
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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 709155.51
- HIP 700545.55
- HIP 714195.55
- Xi 2 Lupi5.59
- HIP 772865.61