Star profile
HIP 95999
What is HIP 95999
In the broad plumage of Pavo gleams an orange K-type star. Its light departed twelve hundred and sixty-four years ago, when Charlemagne was being crowned emperor and Europe was trying to rebuild an imperial order. Cooler than the Sun, its glow arrives coppery and ancient, like an ember barely alive in the embers of the southern sky. Each flash recalls the distant murmur of a continent learning, once again, to read and to govern.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 95999 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: 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 95999
- Constellation
- Pavo
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.98
- Distance
- 1264.3 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 292.796° · Dec -68.434°
- Catalogue
- HIP 95999 · HD 182709
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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 873935.78
- HIP 909305.88
- HIP 935745.89
- HIP 868715.97
- HIP 932875.98