Its story
55 Eri has a visual magnitude of about 6.75: it usually needs binoculars or a small telescope, especially from light-polluted sites.
Equatorial coordinates for 55 Eri: right ascension 4h 43m 35s, declination −8° 47′ 40″ (J2000), in the region of the Lepus constellation (IAU figure Lep).
55 Eri. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 21986, HD 30020, Gaia DR3 3185880919107441920. In the SkyKeepsake Lepus (Lep) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.
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Compose this starFactsHIP 21986
- Right ascension
- 4h 43m 35s
- Declination
- −8° 47′ 40″
- Magnitude
- 6.75
- Distance
- ≈ 466 ly
Data: gaia-dr3