Montuno
WASP-79
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 10.06 mag
- Distance from Earth
- 246.69 pc (≈ 804.6 light-years)
- Spectral type
- F5
- Surface temperature
- 6,600 K
- Right ascension
- 66.3709°
- Declination
- -30.6004°
- Designation
- WASP-79
- IAU name adopted
- 2019-12-17
- Name language
- Spanish
- Name origin (IAU)
- Montuno is the traditional costume the man wears in the “El Punto”, a Panamanian dance in which a man and woman dance to the sound of drums.
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 805 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1221 (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 -30.6° — 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.