Star profile
HIP 81966
What is HIP 81966
In the southern Altar shines a yellow G-class giant, far vaster than the Sun, whose golden light has travelled more than seven hundred and twenty years. When it left that surface, the kingdoms of Castile and Aragon were consolidating their power in the Iberian Peninsula and European guilds were raising Gothic cathedrals that still stand today. It belongs to those ageing yellow stars, distant cousins of the Sun yet far larger, shining like slow beacons of the southern sky.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 81966 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 81966
- Constellation
- Ara
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.96
- Distance
- 728.1 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 251.166° · Dec -53.152°
- Catalogue
- HIP 81966 · HD 150576
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Other stars in Ara
Ara has 43 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- Beta Ara2.84
- Alpha Ara2.84
- Zeta Ara3.12
- HIP 855205.93
- HIP 829025.94
- HIP 841055.94
- HIP 832165.98
- HIP 828065.99