Your Eyes In Space Open the simulation

Star · A5

HIP 24019

HIP 24019 is a main-sequence star of spectral type A5 in the constellation Taurus, 212.6 light-years from the Sun.

ConstellationTaurus
Distance212.6 light-years (65.2 pc)
Apparent magnitudemagnitude 5.93
Absolute magnitudemagnitude 1.86
Spectral typeA5
Surface temperature7,390 K
Luminosity15.6 L☉
Radius2.4 R☉
Mass1.99 M☉ (estimated)
Right ascension (J2000)5h 09m 45.1s
Declination (J2000)+28° 01′ 50″
Space velocity (relative to the Sun)50.6 km/s

In the sky

Visible to the naked eye under a dark sky (apparent magnitude 5.93). Visible from the whole Northern Hemisphere and south to latitude 62° S. North of latitude 62° N it never sets. It stands highest at midnight in December, the best time to observe it.

Through a telescope from Earth

Light's journey

The light you see tonight set out around the year 1813. At the speed of Voyager 1, the fastest craft leaving the Solar System (16.9 km per second), the trip would take 3.8 million years.

The Sun seen from there

From a planet around HIP 24019, the Sun would look like a star of magnitude 8.90, in the direction where our sky has the constellation Ophiuchus. It would be invisible to the naked eye.

Neighbours

Its nearest neighbours in the catalogue (within 20 light-years):

  • HIP 24136 9.12 light-years
  • PSO J078.9904+31.0171 12.2 light-years
  • HIP 23283 13.1 light-years
  • HIP 23056 17.7 light-years

Open in the simulation

Position, brightness and colour from the HYG / AT-HYG catalogue; temperature, luminosity, radius and mass are approximate values computed from these observations.