Star profile
HIP 77858
Hot blue starWhat is HIP 77858
In the stinger of the Scorpion burns a class B sapphire whose light crossed 420.4 years to reach us. It departed around 1605, the year Cervantes published the first part of Don Quixote and opened a new era for the European novel. A blue surface, intense, far hotter than the solar one —a high note in the basso continuo of the firmament.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 77858 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 culminates about 14° above the horizon.
- From New York it culminates about 25° above the horizon.
- From Sydney it culminates about 81° above the horizon.
It can be seen from anywhere south of 65° N.
It ranks no. 51 in brightness among the 104 stars of Scorpius in our catalogue. To find it, start from Antares, the brightest: it lies about 8° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 420 years ago.
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Astronomical data for HIP 77858
- Constellation
- Scorpius
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.38
- Distance
- 420.4 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 238.475° · Dec -24.533°
- Catalogue
- HIP 77858 · HD 142165
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Other stars in Scorpius
Scorpius has 104 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- AntaresAlpha Scorpii1.06
- ShaulaLambda Scorpii1.62
- SargasTheta Scorpii1.86
- HIP 809455.31
- HIP 790505.35
- HIP 803375.37
- HIP 803995.40
- HIP 778595.41