Berehynia
HAT-P-15
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 11.72 mag
- Distance from Earth
- 192.516 pc (≈ 627.9 light-years)
- Spectral type
- G5
- Surface temperature
- 5,568 K
- Right ascension
- 66.2481°
- Declination
- 39.4606°
- Designation
- HAT-P-15
- IAU name adopted
- 2019-12-17
- Name language
- Ukrainian
- Name origin (IAU)
- Berehynia was a Slavic deity of waters and riverbanks but in more recent times her status has been promoted to that of a national goddess — "hearth mother, protectress of the earth".
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 628 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1398 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 11.7 it is fainter than the naked-eye limit (about 6) — you need binoculars or a telescope.
- Declination 39.5° — 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.