Sterrennacht
HAT-P-6
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 10.54 mag
- Distance from Earth
- 275.358 pc (≈ 898.1 light-years)
- Surface temperature
- 6,570 K
- Right ascension
- 354.7742°
- Declination
- 42.466°
- Designation
- HAT-P-6
- IAU name adopted
- 2019-12-17
- Name language
- Dutch
- Name origin (IAU)
- The Sterrennacht (Starry Night) is a world-famous painting by Dutch grand master Van Gogh that was painted in France in 1889 and now belongs to the permanent collection of New York's Museum of Modern Art.
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 898 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1128 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 10.5 it is fainter than the naked-eye limit (about 6) — you need binoculars or a telescope.
- Declination 42.5° — 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.