Buna
HD 16175 · HIP 12191
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 7.28 mag
- Parallax
- 17.28 mas → about 188.7 light-years away
- Spectral type
- G0
- Surface temperature
- 5,981 K
- Right ascension
- 39.258°
- Declination
- 42.0626°
- Designation
- HD 16175
- HIP number
- 12191
- IAU name adopted
- 2019-12-17
- Name language
- Ethiopian
- Name origin (IAU)
- Buna is the commonly used word for coffee in Ethiopia.
Source:IAU Working Group on Star Names · checked 2026-11-02 ↗ESA Hipparcos Catalogue (ESA Gaia Archive) · 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 189 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1837 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 7.3 it is fainter than the naked-eye limit (about 6) — you need binoculars or a telescope.
- Declination 42.1° — 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.