Star profile
HIP 7943
Hot blue starWhat is HIP 7943
Triangulum hosts this hot B-class star at 275 light-years. The light arriving tonight set out around 1751, when Diderot and d'Alembert were publishing the first volume of the «Encyclopédie» and Europe was beginning to imagine knowledge as an open map. It shines a severe, almost geometric blue inside the most austere triangle of the northern sky.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 7943 lies in the northern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is October, when it culminates around midnight.
- From London it culminates about 74° above the horizon.
- From New York it culminates about 85° above the horizon.
- From Sydney it culminates about 21° above the horizon.
It can be seen from anywhere north of 55° S.
It ranks no. 13 in brightness among the 18 stars of Triangulum in our catalogue. To find it, start from Beta Triangulum, the brightest: it lies about 6° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 270 years ago.
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Astronomical data for HIP 7943
- Constellation
- Triangulum
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.63
- Distance
- 274.8 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 25.515° · Dec 35.246°
- Catalogue
- HIP 7943 · HD 10390
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Other stars in Triangulum
Triangulum has 18 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- Beta Triangulum3.00
- MothallahAlpha Triangulum3.42
- Gamma Triangulum4.03
- 15 Triangulum5.38
- Epsilon Triangulum5.50
- 11 Triangulum5.55
- HIP 84335.78
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