Star profile
HIP 75501
What is HIP 75501
A pure white light hangs in Lupus, deep in the southern sky. It belongs to class A: hot surfaces and a clean color reminiscent of a polished blade. The photon arriving now left 392 years ago, when Newton was still a child in Woolsthorpe and calculus had yet to be born. Anonymous over the Wolf, it never needed an ancient name to keep shining.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 75501 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 culminates about 11° above the horizon.
- From Sydney it culminates about 85° above the horizon.
It can be seen from anywhere south of 51° N.
It ranks no. 25 in brightness among the 74 stars of Lupus in our catalogue. To find it, start from Alpha Lupi, the brightest: it lies about 12° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 390 years ago.
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Astronomical data for HIP 75501
- Constellation
- Lupus
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.60
- Distance
- 392.5 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 231.334° · Dec -38.734°
- Catalogue
- HIP 75501 · HD 137058
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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
- Phi 2 Lupi4.54
- HIP 763714.55
- Tau 1 Lupi4.56
- HIP 768294.64
- Psi 1 Lupi4.66