Star profile
HIP 7941
What is HIP 7941
Pure white in the discreet Sculptor, 303 light years away, an A-class star lights its southern corner of sky. The light now reaching the atmosphere took leave of its surface around 1722, the year the Dutch navigator Roggeveen first sighted Easter Island on Easter Sunday. Strong hydrogen, clean colour, gentle glow — the classic signature of young stellar maturity.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 7941 lies in the southern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is September, when it culminates around midnight.
- From London it culminates about 2° above the horizon.
- From New York it culminates about 12° above the horizon.
- From Sydney it culminates about 87° above the horizon.
It can be seen from anywhere south of 53° N.
It ranks no. 24 in brightness among the 33 stars of Sculptor in our catalogue. To find it, start from Alpha Sculptor, the brightest: it lies about 12° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 300 years ago.
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Astronomical data for HIP 7941
- Constellation
- Sculptor
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.70
- Distance
- 303.7 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 25.512° · Dec -36.832°
- Catalogue
- HIP 7941 · HD 10538
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Other stars in Sculptor
Sculptor has 33 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- Alpha Sculptor4.30
- Beta Sculptor4.38
- Gamma Sculptor4.41
- HIP 12885.66
- HIP 6555.67
- Tau Sculptor5.69
- HIP 71185.79
- HIP 65025.84