Star profile
HIP 96141
What is HIP 96141
In the delicate southern Telescope —another stellar invention of Lacaille— shines a white star 377 light-years away. Its light set out around 1649, when Charles I of England was executed and Europe understood that a king could be tried by his people. A-type stars are in their prime: they burn with hydrogen spectral lines so clean they seem hand-written.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 96141 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 96141
- Constellation
- Telescopium
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.76
- Distance
- 377.5 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 293.224° · Dec -53.186°
- Catalogue
- HIP 96141 · HD 183552
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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
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- HIP 906625.69
- HIP 956905.70
- HIP 978165.76
- HIP 923675.80