Star profile
HIP 81141
What is HIP 81141
In the small southern constellation of the Bird of Paradise glows an orange giant whose light took 809 years to cross the black ocean. When it left, the Teutonic Knights were raising castles on the Baltic and medieval Europe simmered with crusades and pilgrimages. A class-K sun, cooler than ours yet far larger, it looks like an amber ember suspended in one of the least-frequented corners of the southern sky.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 81141 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 53° up.
It can be seen from anywhere south of 19° N.
It ranks no. 12 in brightness among the 21 stars of Apus in our catalogue. To find it, start from Alpha Apus, the brightest: it lies about 10° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 810 years ago.
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Astronomical data for HIP 81141
- Constellation
- Apus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.50
- Distance
- 809.4 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 248.581° · Dec -70.988°
- Catalogue
- HIP 81141 · HD 148488
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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
- HIP 732235.37
- Iota Apus5.39
- Kappa 1 Apus5.40
- HIP 728335.59
- Kappa 2 Apus5.64