Star profile
HIP 85162
Hot blue starWhat is HIP 85162
In the sting of Scorpius burns an intense blue B-class star, 738 light-years away, a distance placing the emission of its light around 1288—the century when Kublai Khan ruled China and Venetian merchants stretched their routes across the eastern Mediterranean. Its heat is such that the human eye reads it as an electric spark amid the scorpion's red flames.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 85162 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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Astronomical data for HIP 85162
- Constellation
- Scorpius
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.10
- Distance
- 738.0 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 261.055° · Dec -44.163°
- Catalogue
- HIP 85162 · HD 157243
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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
- HIP 833365.03
- HIP 840335.06
- HIP 793025.09
- HIP 824935.23
- Chi Scorpii5.24