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Star · B4V

HIP 32007

HIP 32007 is a main-sequence star of spectral type B4V in the constellation Puppis, 915.6 light-years from the Sun.

ConstellationPuppis
Distance915.6 light-years (280.7 pc)
Apparent magnitudemagnitude 6.16
Absolute magnitudemagnitude −1.08
Spectral typeB4V
Surface temperature12,410 K
Luminosity473 L☉
Radius4.7 R☉
Mass5.28 M☉ (estimated)
Right ascension (J2000)6h 41m 14.2s
Declination (J2000)−40° 20′ 59″
Space velocity (relative to the Sun)23.4 km/s

In the sky

Visible to the naked eye under a dark sky (apparent magnitude 6.16). Visible from the whole Southern Hemisphere and north to latitude 50° N. South of latitude 50° S 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 1110. At the speed of Voyager 1, the fastest craft leaving the Solar System (16.9 km per second), the trip would take 16 million years.

The Sun seen from there

From a planet around HIP 32007, the Sun would look like a star of magnitude 12.07, in the direction where our sky has the constellation Lyra. It would be invisible to the naked eye.

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.