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, when it culminates around midnight.
- From London it never rises above the horizon.
- From New York it culminates about 5° above the horizon.
- From Sydney it culminates about 80° above the horizon.
It can be seen from anywhere south of 46° N.
It ranks no. 45 in brightness among the 104 stars of Scorpius in our catalogue. To find it, start from Antares, the brightest: it lies about 21° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 740 years ago.
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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