Naledi
WASP-62
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 10.12 mag
- Distance from Earth
- 175.631 pc (≈ 572.8 light-years)
- Surface temperature
- 6,230 K
- Right ascension
- 87.14°
- Declination
- -63.9884°
- Designation
- WASP-62
- IAU name adopted
- 2019-12-17
- Name language
- Sesotho, Se Tswana and SePedi
- Name origin (IAU)
- Naledi means star in the Sesotho, SeTswana and SePedi languages and is typically given as a name to girls in the hope that they will bring light, joy and peace to their communities.
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 573 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1453 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 10.1 it is fainter than the naked-eye limit (about 6) — you need binoculars or a telescope.
- Declination -64° — 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.