Star profile
HIP 80208
Hot blue starWhat is HIP 80208
In the small constellation of Norma, traced by Lacaille in the 18th century, burns a blue-white B-class star whose light departed around 1561, when Tycho Brahe was still a child in Denmark. Far hotter than the Sun, it radiates an icy, almost violet glow. It dwells in the deep heart of the southern Milky Way, hidden from those who only look north, reminding us that the whole sky is a single book read from two hemispheres.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 80208 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 80208
- Constellation
- Norma
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.32
- Distance
- 462.7 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 245.617° · Dec -49.572°
- Catalogue
- HIP 80208 · HD 147152
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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
- Kappa Norma4.95
- Gamma 1 Norma4.97
- Theta Norma5.13
- HIP 807825.35
- HIP 766185.43