Star profile
HIP 78279
Hot blue starWhat is HIP 78279
In Triangulum Australe, a modest figure of the southern sky, shines a blue-white B-type star, young and far hotter than the Sun. Its light set out about 889 years ago, when the first Gothic cathedrals were rising in Île-de-France and Andalusian astronomers were refining planetary tables in Toledo. It arrives now with the freshness of bluish suns, untouched after almost nine centuries of travel.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 78279 lies in the southern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is June: 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 78279
- Constellation
- Triangulum Australe
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.74
- Distance
- 888.8 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 239.742° · Dec -65.038°
- Catalogue
- HIP 78279 · HD 142514
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Other stars in Triangulum Australe
Triangulum Australe has 21 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- AtriaAlpha Trianguli Australis1.91
- Beta Trianguli Australis2.83
- Gamma Trianguli Australis2.87
- Theta Trianguli Australis5.50
- HIP 773905.54
- HIP 756655.71
- HIP 745825.75
- HIP 741845.76