Tonglingxing
HR 2527 · HIP 33694
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.54 mag
- Parallax
- 17.75 mas → about 183.7 light-years away
- Spectral type
- K4III
- Right ascension
- 105.0168°
- Declination
- 76.9774°
- Designation
- HR 2527
- HIP number
- 33694
- IAU name adopted
- 2026-02-22
- Name language
- Chinese
- Name origin (IAU)
- Tóng Líng (Phoenix Tree Mound, 桐陵) is a traditional Chinese star name at the right wall of the Purple Palace constellation, rarely used, but ~2000 years old. WGSN uses "Tonglingxing" to avoid confusion with an asteroid name.
Source:IAU Working Group on Star Names · checked 2026-11-02 ↗ESA Hipparcos Catalogue (ESA Gaia Archive) · checked 2026-11-03 ↗
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Constellation
In everyday life
- Light from this object takes about 184 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1842 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 4.5 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination 77° — from Seoul (37.6° N) it never sets and circles the northern sky all night.
Worked out from this object's official values.