Maru
WD 0806-661
🇰🇷 Korea
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Distance from Earth
- 19.2444 pc (≈ 62.8 light-years)
- Spectral type
- DQ
- Surface temperature
- 10,393 K
- Designation
- WD 0806-661
- IAU name adopted
- 2023-08-01
- Name language
- Korean
- Name origin (IAU)
- ‘Maru’ (마루) is a Korean word reminiscent of the sky.
Source:NASA Exoplanet Archive (Caltech/IPAC) · checked 2026-11-03 ↗NASA Exoplanet Archive (Caltech/IPAC) · checked 2026-11-03 ↗IAU Working Group on Star Names · checked 2026-11-02 ↗
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In everyday life
- Light from this object takes about 63 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1963 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 13.9 it is fainter than the naked-eye limit (about 6) — you need binoculars or a telescope.
- Its IAU name «Maru» comes from Korean (IAU Working Group on Star Names).
Worked out from this object's official values.