Star profile
HIP 86170
What is HIP 86170
Deep within Scorpius pulses a yellow beacon from the Sun's own family. Its light took roughly 166 years to cross the void —it set out when Lewis Carroll published Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in 1865— and still slips today between the celestial scorpion's claws. It shines with quiet poise, like an elder sister of the Sun choosing a discreet corner of the southern sky.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 86170 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 86170
- Constellation
- Scorpius
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.26
- Distance
- 165.8 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 264.137° · Dec -38.635°
- Catalogue
- HIP 86170 · HD 159433
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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
- JabbahNu Scorpii4.00
- HIP 813044.18
- HIP 809114.24
- Omega 2 Scorpii4.31
- Omicron Scorpii4.55