Star profile
HIP 91532
What is HIP 91532
On the shield of Scutum gleams an orange K-type star, cooler and more amber than the Sun. Its 583 light-years were born while Florentine humanists were rediscovering Plato and Greek manuscripts were fleeing Constantinople toward Italy to save an entire civilization. That golden light travels from a century in which ancient knowledge was being shipped, in trunks, back to the West.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 91532 lies in the southern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is July, when it culminates around midnight.
- From London it culminates about 31° above the horizon.
- From New York it culminates about 42° above the horizon.
- From Sydney it culminates about 64° above the horizon.
It can be seen from anywhere south of 82° N.
It ranks no. 16 in brightness among the 18 stars of Scutum in our catalogue. To find it, start from Alpha Scutum, the brightest: it lies about 1° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 580 years ago.
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Astronomical data for HIP 91532
- Constellation
- Scutum
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.82
- Distance
- 582.5 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 280.002° · Dec -7.791°
- Catalogue
- HIP 91532 · HD 172348
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Other stars in Scutum
Scutum has 18 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- Alpha Scutum3.85
- Beta Scutum4.22
- Zeta Scutum4.66
- HIP 900965.71
- HIP 909915.74
- HIP 908045.77
- HIP 924885.82
- HIP 923915.99