Axólotl
HD 224693 · HIP 118319
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 8.23 mag
- Parallax
- 10.16 mas → about 321 light-years away
- Spectral type
- G2V
- Surface temperature
- 5,894 K
- Right ascension
- 359.9743°
- Declination
- -22.4281°
- Designation
- HD 224693
- HIP number
- 118319
- IAU name adopted
- 2019-12-17
- Name language
- Nahuatl
- Name origin (IAU)
- Axólotl means water animal in the native Nahuatl language, which is a unique and culturally significant endemic amphibious species from the basin of Mexico.
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 321 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1705 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 8.2 it is fainter than the naked-eye limit (about 6) — you need binoculars or a telescope.
- Declination -22.4° — 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.