Taika
HAT-P-40
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 11.35 mag
- Distance from Earth
- 464.469 pc (≈ 1,514.9 light-years)
- Surface temperature
- 6,080 K
- Right ascension
- 335.5129°
- Declination
- 45.4574°
- Designation
- HAT-P-40
- IAU name adopted
- 2019-12-17
- Name language
- Lithuanian
- Name origin (IAU)
- Taika means peace in the Lithuanian language.
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 1,515 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 511 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 11.4 it is fainter than the naked-eye limit (about 6) — you need binoculars or a telescope.
- Declination 45.5° — 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.