Flying Saucer
2MASS J16281370-2431391
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Magnitude (non-V band)
- 21.0188 mag
- Magnitude band
- G
- Right ascension
- 247.0571°
- Declination
- -24.5277°
- Designation
- 2MASS J16281370-2431391
- IAU name adopted
- 2026-06-13
- Name language
- English
- Name origin (IAU)
- The star 2MASS J16281370-2431391 is invisible and got the name in 2008 becaus of its edge-on disk of large grains (dust or debris).
Source:IAU Working Group on Star Names · checked 2026-11-02 ↗
Related
Constellation
In everyday life
- Declination -24.5° — it rises above the horizon in Seoul (37.6° N), so it is visible from Korea in the right season.
- Its IAU name «Flying Saucer» comes from English (IAU Working Group on Star Names).
Worked out from this object's official values.