Your Eyes In Space Open the simulation

Star · M1III

HIP 73350

HIP 73350 is a giant star of spectral type M1III in the constellation Virgo, 647.3 light-years from the Sun.

ConstellationVirgo
Distance647.3 light-years (198.5 pc)
Apparent magnitudemagnitude 5.91
Absolute magnitudemagnitude −0.58
Spectral typeM1III
Surface temperature3,630 K
Luminosity679 L☉
Radius66 R☉
Mass5.85 M☉ (estimated)
Right ascension (J2000)14h 59m 23.1s
Declination (J2000)+4° 34′ 04″
Space velocity (relative to the Sun)15.0 km/s

In the sky

Visible to the naked eye under a dark sky (apparent magnitude 5.91). Visible from the whole Northern Hemisphere and south to latitude 85° S. It stands highest at midnight in May, the best time to observe it.

Through a telescope from Earth

Light's journey

The light you see tonight set out around the year 1379. At the speed of Voyager 1, the fastest craft leaving the Solar System (16.9 km per second), the trip would take 11 million years.

The Sun seen from there

From a planet around HIP 73350, the Sun would look like a star of magnitude 11.32, in the direction where our sky has the constellation Eridanus. 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.