Its story
HIP 78809 has a visual magnitude of about 7.64: it usually needs binoculars or a small telescope, especially from light-polluted sites.
Equatorial coordinates for HIP 78809: right ascension 16h 5m 19s, declination −23° 40′ 9″ (J2000), in the region of the Libra constellation (IAU figure Lib).
HIP 78809. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 78809, HD 144175, Gaia DR3 6242281386125096960. In the SkyKeepsake Libra (Lib) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.
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- Right ascension
- 16h 05m 19s
- Declination
- −23° 40′ 09″
- Magnitude
- 7.64
- Distance
- ≈ 474 ly
Data: gaia-dr3