Bosona
HD 206610 · HIP 107251
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 8.34 mag
- Parallax
- 5.16 mas → about 632.1 light-years away
- Spectral type
- K0
- Surface temperature
- 4,842 K
- Right ascension
- 325.8538°
- Declination
- -7.4083°
- Designation
- HD 206610
- HIP number
- 107251
- IAU name adopted
- 2019-12-17
- Name language
- NEWC
- Name origin (IAU)
- Bosona is the name given to the territory of Bosnia in the 10th century. Later, the name was transformed to Bosnia originating from the name of the Bosna river.
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 632 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1394 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 8.3 it is fainter than the naked-eye limit (about 6) — you need binoculars or a telescope.
- Declination -7.4° — 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.