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Star · B9

HIP 93117

HIP 93117 is a main-sequence star of spectral type B9 in the constellation Octans, 552.8 light-years from the Sun.

ConstellationOctans
Distance552.8 light-years (169.5 pc)
Apparent magnitudemagnitude 6.35
Absolute magnitudemagnitude 0.20
Spectral typeB9
Surface temperature10,560 K
Luminosity107 L☉
Radius3.09 R☉
Mass3.45 M☉ (estimated)
Right ascension (J2000)18h 58m 10.1s
Declination (J2000)−83° 25′ 20″
Space velocity (relative to the Sun)20.0 km/s

In the sky

Visible to the naked eye under a dark sky (apparent magnitude 6.35). Visible from the whole Southern Hemisphere and north to latitude 7° N. South of latitude 7° S it never sets.

Through a telescope from Earth

Light's journey

The light you see tonight set out around the year 1473. At the speed of Voyager 1, the fastest craft leaving the Solar System (16.9 km per second), the trip would take 9.8 million years.

The Sun seen from there

From a planet around HIP 93117, the Sun would look like a star of magnitude 10.98, in the direction where our sky has the constellation Camelopardalis. It would be invisible to the naked eye.

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