Star profile
HIP 83336
Hot blue starWhat is HIP 83336
Submerged in the stinger of Scorpius, this hot blue B-type star burns with an intensity that humbles the Sun. Its light set out about 450 years ago, when Cervantes was finishing Don Quixote and Galileo was refining his spyglass in Padua. It belongs to that family of stellar embers whose surface temperatures climb past twenty thousand degrees. Looking at it is like receiving a late-Renaissance message written in violet light, sent through the very heart of the Scorpion.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 83336 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 culminates about 6° above the horizon.
- From New York it culminates about 17° above the horizon.
- From Sydney it culminates about 88° above the horizon.
It can be seen from anywhere south of 58° N.
It ranks no. 42 in brightness among the 104 stars of Scorpius in our catalogue. To find it, start from Antares, the brightest: it lies about 9° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 450 years ago.
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Astronomical data for HIP 83336
- Constellation
- Scorpius
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.03
- Distance
- 447.5 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 255.469° · Dec -32.144°
- Catalogue
- HIP 83336 · HD 153613
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Other stars in Scorpius
Scorpius has 104 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- AntaresAlpha Scorpii1.06
- ShaulaLambda Scorpii1.62
- SargasTheta Scorpii1.86
- Psi Scorpii4.93
- HIP 786504.96
- Xi Scorpii5.00
- HIP 840335.06
- HIP 793025.09