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, 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 culminates about 73° above the horizon.
It can be seen from anywhere south of 39° N.
It ranks no. 25 in brightness among the 39 stars of Phoenix in our catalogue. To find it, start from Ankaa, the brightest: it lies about 16° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 630 years ago.
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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