Veritate
HR 8930 · HIP 116076 · 14 And
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.22 mag
- Parallax
- 12.63 mas → about 258.2 light-years away
- Spectral type
- K0III
- Surface temperature
- 4,888 K
- Right ascension
- 352.8217°
- Declination
- 39.2364°
- Bayer designation
- 14 And
- HIP number
- 116076
- IAU name adopted
- 2015-12-15
- Name language
- Latin
- Name origin (IAU)
- From the latin "Veritas", truth. The ablative form means "where there is truth".
Source:ESA Hipparcos Catalogue (ESA Gaia Archive) · checked 2026-11-03 ↗NASA Exoplanet Archive (Caltech/IPAC) · checked 2026-11-03 ↗IAU Working Group on Star Names · checked 2026-11-02 ↗
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In everyday life
- Light from this object takes about 258 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1768 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 5.2 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination 39.2° — 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.