Star profile
HIP 91854
What is HIP 91854
An orange K-type giant burns with serene warmth in the southern Pavo, the bird of a hundred celestial eyes. Its light took more than three hundred and fifty years to reach us, leaving when European kingdoms were signing the Peace of Westphalia and beginning to redraw the modern map. Cooler than the Sun yet enormously larger, its coppery ember brings life to this seldom-traveled corner of the sky.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 91854 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 never rises above the horizon.
- From Sydney it never sets and culminates about 59° up.
It can be seen from anywhere south of 25° N.
It ranks no. 38 in brightness among the 44 stars of Pavo in our catalogue. To find it, start from Peacock, the brightest: it lies about 15° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 360 years ago.
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Astronomical data for HIP 91854
- Constellation
- Pavo
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.76
- Distance
- 355.3 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 280.906° · Dec -64.551°
- Catalogue
- HIP 91854 · HD 172211
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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
- HIP 983325.74
- HIP 1043645.75
- Mu 1 Pavonis5.75
- HIP 873935.78
- HIP 909305.88