Poerava
HD 221287 · HIP 116084
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 7.82 mag
- Parallax
- 18.09 mas → about 180.3 light-years away
- Spectral type
- F7V
- Surface temperature
- 6,304 K
- Right ascension
- 352.8347°
- Declination
- -58.2097°
- Designation
- HD 221287
- HIP number
- 116084
- IAU name adopted
- 2019-12-17
- Name language
- Cook Islands Maori
- Name origin (IAU)
- Poerava is the word in the Cook Islands Maori language for a large mystical black pearl of utter beauty and perfection.
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 180 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1846 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 7.8 it is fainter than the naked-eye limit (about 6) — you need binoculars or a telescope.
- Declination -58.2° — it never rises in Seoul (37.6° N); you need to be farther south to see it.
Worked out from this object's official values.