HD 236044
ILLUSTRATION FROM SPECTRAL TYPE B1V · 26 200 K
OVERVIEW
] STARHD 236044 is a B1V blue-white main-sequence star in the constellation Cassiopeia, shining at apparent magnitude 9.60 (). It is catalogued as HIP 114141.
- WHAT IT IS
- Blue-white main-sequence star
- HOW BRIGHT (V)
A small telescope reaches it.
OBSERVING
] FROM WHERE YOU AREWhat it takes to see HD 236044 for yourself. Everything in this part of the page is worked out for a real horizon, a real night and the equipment you say you have.
Say where you are, and this line says when HD 236044 is worth going out for.
THROUGH AN EYEPIECE
] 150 MM TELESCOPE · 25 MM EYEPIECEOut of reach of binoculars; a 150 mm telescope reaches it. It will be a point of light in anything: a star is far enough away that no aperture on Earth gives it a width, and all the equipment changes is how easily you find it.
- 48×
- 1.08
- 1.25
- 13.0
- APPARENT MAGNITUDE ()
- 9.60 · within reach
APPARENT PLACE
] EQUINOX J2026.7Where a telescope has to be pointed today, which is not quite where the catalogue records the object: the coordinate grid itself has turned since the year 2000 the catalogue is referred to.
- RIGHT ASCENSION
- DECLINATION
- GRID TURNED SINCE
- 13.3
- PROPER MOTION SINCE
- 0.07
Computed for 2026-08-27 00:00 UT. Two things separate it from the catalogued position above: HD 236044 has moved under its own proper motion, and the coordinate grid has turned under it — about fifty arcseconds a year of precession since 2000, and the small nodding of the Earth’s axis on top of that. Aberration and refraction are not included, and neither is parallax; each is under an arcminute, which is also about as well as the catalogued position is known. The same figure for any date.
CATALOG DATA
] 6 FIELDSThe raw catalogue values, as the source published them, with the error bars where one was published — sorted by what each set of figures is about rather than by the order they happened to be stored in.
WHAT IT IS MADE OF
What the object is in itself, rather than how it happens to look from here.
- Spectral type
HOW BRIGHT IT IS
What the light adds up to, measured through one filter at a time. A magnitude is a brightness on a backwards scale — the smaller the number, the brighter the object.
- Colour index (B−V)
WHERE IT IS AND HOW IT MOVES
Position, motion across the sky and the size it covers on it. These are measurements of the object as seen from here, so every one of them depends on where here is.
- Proper motion (RA)
- −1.13
- Proper motion (Dec)
- −2.42
- Radial velocity
- −37
WHERE THESE FIGURES CAME FROM
Which catalogue, paper or model each of the fields above was read from, where the source named one.
- Spectral type from
- SIMBAD (quality C)
ALSO KNOWN AS
] 2 DESIGNATIONS- HD HD 236044
- HIP HIP 114141
LOOK IT UP ELSEWHERE
] 3 SERVICESEach link carries the identifier printed beside it. Nothing on this page is a measurement of our own, so a number that disagrees with one of these is worth reporting — and a service that has never catalogued this object under this name will say so plainly.
- SIMBADHD 236044
Cross-identifications, measured values and the reference behind each of them.
- ADSobject:"HD 236044"
Papers indexed against this object rather than against the string, newest first.
- VizieR5″ around 346.7454 +54.7468
Every published table with a row at this position, searched by coordinates rather than by name.
CITE THIS PAGE
] DR1This page is live and its numbers move when an upstream refreshes, so the citation names the release the rows belong to rather than the day you read them. The release itself is frozen, republished as a bundle, and is what a data-availability statement should point at.
SpaceCatalog. HD 236044 [catalogue entry]. Data release DR1 (2026-08-21). https://spacecatalog.org/object/hd-236044
@misc{spacecatalog_hd-236044,
author = {{SpaceCatalog}},
title = {{HD 236044}},
howpublished = {SpaceCatalog, data release DR1 (2026-08-21)},
year = {2026},
url = {https://spacecatalog.org/object/hd-236044},
note = {Catalogue entry, data release DR1 (2026-08-21). Values from HYG Database v4.1.}
}The values above were taken from HYG Database v4.1 — CC-BY-SA-4.0. Citing this page does not replace citing that catalogue, and its licence is share-alike: the terms reach whatever you build from these rows.