Solaris
BD+14 4559 · HIP 104780
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 9.78 mag
- Parallax
- 20.68 mas → about 157.7 light-years away
- Spectral type
- K5
- Surface temperature
- 4,864 K
- Right ascension
- 318.4°
- Declination
- 14.6894°
- Designation
- BD+14 4559
- HIP number
- 104780
- IAU name adopted
- 2019-12-17
- Name language
- fictional
- Name origin (IAU)
- Solaris is the title of a 1961 science fiction novel about an ocean-covered exoplanet by Polish writer Stanislaw Lem.
Source:IAU Working Group on Star Names · checked 2026-11-02 ↗ESA Hipparcos Catalogue (ESA Gaia Archive) · 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 158 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1868 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 9.8 it is fainter than the naked-eye limit (about 6) — you need binoculars or a telescope.
- Declination 14.7° — 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.