Mahsati
HD 152581 · HIP 82651
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 8.38 mag
- Parallax
- 5.39 mas → about 605.1 light-years away
- Spectral type
- K0
- Surface temperature
- 5,027 K
- Right ascension
- 253.4316°
- Declination
- 11.9737°
- Designation
- HD 152581
- HIP number
- 82651
- IAU name adopted
- 2019-12-17
- Name language
- Persian
- Name origin (IAU)
- Mahsati Ganjavi (1089–1159) is one of the brightest shining stars of Azerbaijani poetry. She was said to have associated with both Omar Khayyam and Nizami and was well educated and talented and played numerous musical instruments.
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 605 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1421 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 8.4 it is fainter than the naked-eye limit (about 6) — you need binoculars or a telescope.
- Declination 12° — 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.