Sansuna
HAT-P-34
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 10.31 mag
- Distance from Earth
- 249.325 pc (≈ 813.2 light-years)
- Surface temperature
- 6,442 K
- Right ascension
- 303.1954°
- Declination
- 18.1048°
- Designation
- HAT-P-34
- IAU name adopted
- 2019-12-17
- Name language
- Maltese
- Name origin (IAU)
- Sansuna is the name of the mythological giant from traditional Maltese folk tales that carried the stones of the Gozo megalithic temples on her head.
Source:IAU Working Group on Star Names · checked 2026-11-02 ↗NASA Exoplanet Archive (Caltech/IPAC) · checked 2026-11-03 ↗
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In everyday life
- Light from this object takes about 813 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1213 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 10.3 it is fainter than the naked-eye limit (about 6) — you need binoculars or a telescope.
- Declination 18.1° — 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.