Uúba
LTT 9779 · HIP 117883
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 9.79 mag
- Parallax
- 12.97 mas → about 251.5 light-years away
- Spectral type
- G8
- Surface temperature
- 5,443 K
- Right ascension
- 358.6668°
- Declination
- -37.6278°
- Designation
- LTT 9779
- HIP number
- 117883
- IAU name adopted
- 2023-08-01
- Name language
- Lenguistica U’wa language, also known as Tunebo.
- Name origin (IAU)
- Uúba is the word for “stars”, “seeds”, and “eyes” in the Lenguistica U’wa language (Tunebo) of the U’wa Indigenous community of Colombia.
Source:ESA Hipparcos Catalogue (ESA Gaia Archive) · 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 251 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1775 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 9.8 it is fainter than the naked-eye limit (about 6) — you need binoculars or a telescope.
- Declination -37.6° — 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.