Star profile
HIP 90930
What is HIP 90930
It dwells in Pavo, the peacock whose feathers of light Lacaille unfurled across the southern sky. Its orange tone places it among the K-class stars, mature giants of warm hue. The glow that grazes us today set out some 355 years ago, when Isaac Newton was publishing his first works on the nature of white light and discovering the spectrum of colours in the prism. Broader than the Sun, it shines with that serene depth proper to stars that have already walked most of their lives.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 90930 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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A public signature from a real person. The chosen name is a symbolic denomination within Stelvia, with no official standing or IAU recognition: the sky is not for sale and belongs to no one.
Astronomical data for HIP 90930
- Constellation
- Pavo
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.88
- Distance
- 355.0 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 278.231° · Dec -73.966°
- Catalogue
- HIP 90930 · HD 169570
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Other stars in Pavo
Pavo has 44 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- PeacockAlpha Pavonis1.94
- Beta Pavonis3.42
- Delta Pavonis3.55
- Mu 1 Pavonis5.75
- HIP 918545.76
- HIP 873935.78
- HIP 935745.89
- HIP 868715.97