Star profile
HIP 90662
What is HIP 90662
In Telescopium, the small constellation honoring the instrument that reshaped our view of the sky, glows an orange K-type giant 646 light-years away. Its warm light set out in the years when Brunelleschi closed the dome of Florence and opened the Italian Renaissance. Cooler than the Sun yet swollen to vast proportions, it quietly lights the southern sky between Pavo and Sagittarius.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 90662 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 2° above the horizon.
- From Sydney it culminates about 77° above the horizon.
It can be seen from anywhere south of 43° N.
It ranks no. 19 in brightness among the 27 stars of Telescopium in our catalogue. To find it, start from Alpha Telescopium, the brightest: it lies about 1° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 650 years ago.
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Astronomical data for HIP 90662
- Constellation
- Telescopium
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.69
- Distance
- 645.9 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 277.483° · Dec -47.221°
- Catalogue
- HIP 90662 · HD 170069
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Other stars in Telescopium
Telescopium has 27 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- Alpha Telescopium3.49
- Zeta Telescopium4.10
- Epsilon Telescopium4.52
- HIP 926305.51
- HIP 961785.59
- HIP 997475.65
- HIP 956905.70
- HIP 961415.76