Hunahpú
HD 98219 · HIP 55174
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 8.05 mag
- Parallax
- 7.45 mas → about 437.8 light-years away
- Spectral type
- K0III/IV
- Surface temperature
- 4,925 K
- Right ascension
- 169.4481°
- Declination
- -23.9754°
- Designation
- HD 98219
- HIP number
- 55174
- IAU name adopted
- 2019-12-17
- Name language
- Kʼicheʼ language
- Name origin (IAU)
- Hunahpú was one of the twin gods who became the Sun in K'iche' (Quiché) Mayan mythology as recounted in the Popol Vuh.
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 438 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1588 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 8.1 it is fainter than the naked-eye limit (about 6) — you need binoculars or a telescope.
- Declination -24° — 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.