Star profile
HIP 76207
Cool red starWhat is HIP 76207
It is a distant ember of M-type, cool and red, the kind of class found in aged or low-mass stars. Its light took about 1,149 years to arrive: it set out in the High Middle Ages, when Charlemagne was consolidating an empire in Western Europe. The distance demands patience: that light crossed the air so many human lives ago that counting them loses meaning. In the southern Lupus, it keeps a reddish and quiet pulse.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 76207 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 76207
- Constellation
- Lupus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.82
- Distance
- 1148.6 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 233.507° · Dec -40.066°
- Catalogue
- HIP 76207 · HD 138505
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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 740665.75
- HIP 740065.77
- HIP 781425.78
- HIP 706635.83
- HIP 741005.85