Star profile
HIP 79689
What is HIP 79689
In the small Norma, the carpenter's square of the southern sky, shines a white A-type sun whose light set out 423 years ago. When it launched into the void, Cervantes was finishing the first part of Don Quixote and telescopes did not yet exist. Hotter and more luminous than our Sun, it offers a cool, elegant white —a geometer's light that seems to honour the instrumental name of the constellation sheltering it.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 79689 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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A public signature from a real person. The chosen name is a symbolic denomination within Stelvia, with no official standing or IAU recognition: the sky is not for sale and belongs to no one.
Astronomical data for HIP 79689
- Constellation
- Norma
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.61
- Distance
- 423.1 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 243.958° · Dec -57.912°
- Catalogue
- HIP 79689 · HD 145782
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Other stars in Norma
Norma has 26 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- Gamma 2 Norma4.01
- Epsilon Norma4.46
- Iota 1 Norma4.63
- Lambda Norma5.44
- HIP 797545.45
- Iota 2 Norma5.57
- HIP 806755.67
- HIP 776455.74