Muspelheim
HAT-P-29
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 11.73 mag
- Distance from Earth
- 313.576 pc (≈ 1,022.7 light-years)
- Spectral type
- F8
- Surface temperature
- 6,087 K
- Right ascension
- 33.1312°
- Declination
- 51.7788°
- Designation
- HAT-P-29
- IAU name adopted
- 2019-12-17
- Name language
- Old Norse
- Name origin (IAU)
- Muspelheim is the Norse mythological realm of fire. The first gods used the sparks of Muspelheim to form the sun, moon, planets, and stars.
Source:IAU Working Group on Star Names · checked 2026-11-02 ↗NASA Exoplanet Archive (Caltech/IPAC) · checked 2026-11-03 ↗NASA Exoplanet Archive (Caltech/IPAC) · checked 2026-11-03 ↗
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In everyday life
- Light from this object takes about 1,023 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1003 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 11.7 it is fainter than the naked-eye limit (about 6) — you need binoculars or a telescope.
- Declination 51.8° — it rises above the horizon in Seoul (37.6° N), so it is visible from Korea in the right season.
Worked out from this object's official values.