Star profile
HIP 78168
Hot blue starWhat is HIP 78168
Hot and bluish-white, this B-star shines in the sting of Scorpius, the scorpion forever chasing Orion across the sky. Its light has crossed space for 460 years: it set out around 1565, while Philip II was having the Escorial built and Spain ruled an empire where —it was said— the sun never set.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 78168 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 78168
- Constellation
- Scorpius
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.84
- Distance
- 460.7 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 239.419° · Dec -20.983°
- Catalogue
- HIP 78168 · HD 142883
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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 827755.78
- HIP 806725.79
- HIP 814725.83
- HIP 817415.84
- HIP 827165.84