Tupi
HD 23079 · HIP 17096
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 7.12 mag
- Parallax
- 29.51 mas → about 110.5 light-years away
- Spectral type
- F8/G0V
- Surface temperature
- 5,994 K
- Right ascension
- 54.9296°
- Declination
- -52.9158°
- Designation
- HD 23079
- HIP number
- 17096
- IAU name adopted
- 2019-12-17
- Name language
- Tupi languages
- Name origin (IAU)
- Tupi is the name of the most populous Indigenous People living on the eastern coast of South America, before the Portuguese arrived in the 16th century.
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 111 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1915 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 7.1 it is fainter than the naked-eye limit (about 6) — you need binoculars or a telescope.
- Declination -52.9° — it never rises in Seoul (37.6° N); you need to be farther south to see it.
Worked out from this object's official values.