Star profile
HIP 8240
Cool red starWhat is HIP 8240
It glows like an ember in Phoenix, a southern constellation born on the charts of late-Renaissance Dutch navigators. An M-type star, cool and reddish, probably aged and swollen. Its light took more than six centuries to arrive: it set out when Castilian kings were signing capitulations that would reshape oceans. Within the bird that rises again, it occupies a side feather, with the deep red of stars that already count long lives.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 8240 lies in the southern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is September: 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 8240
- Constellation
- Phoenix
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.49
- Distance
- 634.6 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 26.525° · Dec -50.816°
- Catalogue
- HIP 8240 · HD 10934
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Other stars in Phoenix
Phoenix has 39 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- AnkaaAlpha Phoenicis2.40
- Beta Phoenicis3.32
- Gamma Phoenicis3.41
- HIP 48905.39
- HIP 22405.42
- HIP 65925.42
- Lambda 2 Phoenicis5.51
- HIP 1075.53