Star profile
HIP 98332
What is HIP 98332
Pavo is the southern peacock, a constellation invented by the Dutch navigators Keyser and de Houtman at the end of the 16th century. There lives this A-type white star, two hundred and twenty-nine light-years away. Its light set out around 1796, when Edward Jenner was successfully testing the first smallpox vaccine. Sharp atmosphere, just enough brightness, no surprises: a star fulfilling its decorative role in the peacock's tail.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 98332 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 98332
- Constellation
- Pavo
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.74
- Distance
- 228.8 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 299.672° · Dec -69.164°
- Catalogue
- HIP 98332 · HD 188097
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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 1044405.67
- Theta Pavonis5.71
- HIP 906645.74
- HIP 1043645.75
- Mu 1 Pavonis5.75