Dìwö
WASP-17
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 11.38 mag
- Distance from Earth
- 405.908 pc (≈ 1,323.9 light-years)
- Spectral type
- F4
- Surface temperature
- 6,550 K
- Right ascension
- 239.9623°
- Declination
- -28.0618°
- Designation
- WASP-17
- IAU name adopted
- 2019-12-17
- Name language
- Bribri
- Name origin (IAU)
- Dìwö in Bribri language means the sun (bigger than the sun we know) and that never turns off.
Source:IAU Working Group on Star Names · checked 2026-11-02 ↗NASA Exoplanet Archive (Caltech/IPAC) · 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 1,324 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 702 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 11.4 it is fainter than the naked-eye limit (about 6) — you need binoculars or a telescope.
- Declination -28.1° — 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.