Nushagak
HD 17156 · HIP 13192
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 8.17 mag
- Parallax
- 13.33 mas → about 244.7 light-years away
- Spectral type
- G5
- Surface temperature
- 6,046 K
- Right ascension
- 42.4354°
- Declination
- 71.7532°
- Designation
- HD 17156
- HIP number
- 13192
- IAU name adopted
- 2019-12-17
- Name language
- NEWC
- Name origin (IAU)
- Nushagak is a regional river near Dilingham, Alaska, which is famous for its wild salmon that sustain local Indigenous communities.
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 245 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1781 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 8.2 it is fainter than the naked-eye limit (about 6) — you need binoculars or a telescope.
- Declination 71.8° — from Seoul (37.6° N) it never sets and circles the northern sky all night.
Worked out from this object's official values.