Karaka
HD 137388 · HIP 76351
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 8.71 mag
- Parallax
- 25.49 mas → about 128 light-years away
- Spectral type
- K0/K1V
- Surface temperature
- 5,181 K
- Right ascension
- 233.9163°
- Declination
- -80.2046°
- Designation
- HD 137388
- HIP number
- 76351
- IAU name adopted
- 2019-12-17
- Name language
- Māori
- Name origin (IAU)
- Karaka is the word in the Māori language for a plant endemic to New Zealand that produces a bright orange, fleshy fruit.
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 128 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1898 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 8.7 it is fainter than the naked-eye limit (about 6) — you need binoculars or a telescope.
- Declination -80.2° — 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.