Aiolos
HD 95086 · HIP 53524
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Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 7.36 mag
- Parallax
- 11.06 mas → about 294.9 light-years away
- Spectral type
- A8III
- Surface temperature
- 7,595 K
- Right ascension
- 164.2629°
- Declination
- -68.6674°
- Designation
- HD 95086
- HIP number
- 53524
- IAU name adopted
- 2023-08-01
- Name language
- Greek
- Name origin (IAU)
- Aiolos (Αίολος) was the Greek mythological keeper of the winds. In Homer’s Odyssey, Aiolos used an oxhide flask to capture all winds except for the western one, Zephyr. Zephyr then helped the sailboat of Ulysses navigate the seas towards home (Ithaca).
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 295 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1731 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 7.4 it is fainter than the naked-eye limit (about 6) — you need binoculars or a telescope.
- Declination -68.7° — 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.