Chaophraya
WASP-50
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 11.55 mag
- Distance from Earth
- 184.848 pc (≈ 602.9 light-years)
- Surface temperature
- 5,400 K
- Right ascension
- 43.6881°
- Declination
- -10.8981°
- Designation
- WASP-50
- IAU name adopted
- 2019-12-17
- Name language
- Thai
- Name origin (IAU)
- Chao Phraya is the great river of Thailand.
Source:IAU Working Group on Star Names · checked 2026-11-02 ↗NASA Exoplanet Archive (Caltech/IPAC) · checked 2026-11-03 ↗
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In everyday life
- Light from this object takes about 603 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1423 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 11.6 it is fainter than the naked-eye limit (about 6) — you need binoculars or a telescope.
- Declination -10.9° — 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.