Star profile
HYG 118632
Binary systemWhat is HYG 118632
Barely 60 light-years away in the constellation Vela, it pulses with the warm, golden tone of class F stars, slightly whiter than the Sun. The light arriving now set out when humanity had not yet set foot on the Moon, in the thick of the space race of the 1960s. It is a binary system: two suns bound by gravity, orbiting one another in silence, a dance that has been unfolding since long before writing was invented.
Where it is and when to see it
HYG 118632 lies in the southern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is March: 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 HYG 118632
- Constellation
- Vela
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.65
- Distance
- 60.5 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 142.676° · Dec -40.466°
- Catalogue
- HYG 118632
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Other stars in Vela
Vela has 127 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- Gamma 2 Velorum1.75
- AlsephinaDelta Velorum1.93
- SuhailLambda Velorum2.23
- HIP 483744.58
- HIP 505554.59
- HIP 454484.63
- HIP 438784.68
- HIP 426244.74