Guahayona
HAT-P-26
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Distance from Earth
- 141.837 pc (≈ 462.6 light-years)
- Spectral type
- K1
- Surface temperature
- 5,079 K
- Designation
- HAT-P-26
- IAU name adopted
- 2023-08-01
- Name language
- Taino
- Name origin (IAU)
- Guahayona was a Taíno mythological hero who was “the one who shone with his own light” and is identified with the morning and evening “star” Venus.
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 463 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1563 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 11.8 it is fainter than the naked-eye limit (about 6) — you need binoculars or a telescope.
- Its IAU name «Guahayona» comes from Taino (IAU Working Group on Star Names).
Worked out from this object's official values.