Star profile
HIP 91461
What is HIP 91461
Telescopium —the constellation Lacaille named in honour of the instrument that revealed it— holds this A-type white at 357 light-years. Its light crossed the vacuum while Newton was grinding his first reflecting telescopes in Cambridge and opening a new way to observe the sky. It took three and a half centuries to reach the eye waiting for it.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 91461 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 91461
- Constellation
- Telescopium
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.84
- Distance
- 356.9 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 279.810° · Dec -47.910°
- Catalogue
- HIP 91461 · HD 171819
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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 961415.76
- HIP 978165.76
- HIP 923675.80
- HIP 975985.91
- HIP 936245.93