Star profile
Delta 2 Apus
What is Delta 2 Apus
Delta-2 Apodis is an orange K3 giant in the southern Bird of Paradise, about 613 light-years away. It forms a wide visual pair with Delta-1 Apodis, a closer red M5 giant, separated by some 103 arcseconds in the sky. To the naked eye both appear as a single warm double in a rarely visited constellation: the red-orange contrast comes out in modest binoculars.
Where it is and when to see it
Delta 2 Apus 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, when it culminates around midnight.
- From London it never rises above the horizon.
- From New York it never rises above the horizon.
- From Sydney it never sets and culminates about 45° up.
It can be seen from anywhere south of 11° N.
It ranks no. 8 in brightness among the 21 stars of Apus in our catalogue. To find it, start from Alpha Apus, the brightest: it lies about 4° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 610 years ago.
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Astronomical data for Delta 2 Apus
- Constellation
- Apus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.27
- Distance
- 613.2 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 245.112° · Dec -78.667°
- Catalogue
- HIP 80057 · HD 145388
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Other stars in Apus
Apus has 21 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- Alpha Apus3.83
- Gamma Apus3.86
- Beta Apus4.23
- Zeta Apus4.76
- Eta Apus4.89
- Epsilon Apus5.06
- HIP 732235.37
- Iota Apus5.39