Star profile
Upsilon Lupi
What is Upsilon Lupi
In the Wolf — the constellation that Greek astronomers pictured as an animal held aloft by the neighbouring Centaur — this A-type white star shines from 407 light-years away. Its light set out at the start of the 17th century, just as Galileo first turned his small telescope toward the moons of Jupiter. The region of sky where it lies also holds the remnant of one of the brightest supernovae ever recorded, SN 1006, witnessed by Chinese and Arab astronomers a thousand years ago.
Where it is and when to see it
Upsilon 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 Upsilon Lupi
- Constellation
- Lupus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.36
- Distance
- 406.7 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 231.188° · Dec -39.710°
- Catalogue
- HIP 75439 · HD 136933
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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 722905.22
- HIP 769395.23
- HIP 758285.26
- HIP 709315.38
- HIP 730955.38