Its story
HIP 26668 has a visual magnitude of about 6.77: it usually needs binoculars or a small telescope, especially from light-polluted sites.
Equatorial coordinates for HIP 26668: right ascension 5h 40m 4s, declination −1° 25′ 32″ (J2000), in the region of the Orion constellation (IAU figure Ori).
HIP 26668. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 26668, HD 37660, Gaia DR3 3217427488256683392. In the SkyKeepsake Orion (Ori) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.
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Compose this starFactsHIP 26668
- Right ascension
- 5h 40m 04s
- Declination
- −1° 25′ 32″
- Magnitude
- 6.77
- Distance
- ≈ 2,300 ly
Data: gaia-dr3