Kamuy
HD 145457 · HIP 79219
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 6.57 mag
- Parallax
- 7.98 mas → about 408.7 light-years away
- Spectral type
- K0III
- Surface temperature
- 4,757 K
- Right ascension
- 242.5163°
- Declination
- 26.7427°
- Designation
- HD 145457
- HIP number
- 79219
- IAU name adopted
- 2019-12-17
- Name language
- Ainu
- Name origin (IAU)
- Kamuy is a word in the Ainu language denoting a supernatural entity possessing spiritual energy.
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 409 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1617 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 6.6 it is fainter than the naked-eye limit (about 6) — you need binoculars or a telescope.
- Declination 26.7° — 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.